It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

The mind is the center of all attractions.

I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.