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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."

"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."

"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."

"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."

"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."

"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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