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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent."
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"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."

"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."

"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."

"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me."

"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."

"The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them."
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