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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Morita, Akio. Interviewed by U.K. Sunday Telegraph. c. 1988.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Sun Tzu. 孫子兵法 [The Art of War]. c. 475 BC, ch. 3.

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life, translated by John Minford. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 81.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 81.

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Samyutta Nikaya. c. 6th century BC, (1.10).

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The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Wisdom Publications, 2003.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Yuanwu Keqin

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Keqin, Yuanwu. 碧巖錄 [The Blue Cliff Record]. c. 1125.

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Jianzhi Sengcan

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Seng Ts'an. Xinxin Ming. c. 600.

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Seng Ts'an. Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind, translated by Richard B. Clarke. White Pine Press, 2001.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 11.

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 6.

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 4.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 4.

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Rushdie, Salman. "The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance." Times, 3 July 1982.

Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

Kakfa on the Shore

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Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

Drunk we lie down in empty hills,
heaven and earth our quilt and pillow.

Li Bai

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Li Po. A Night With a Friend. c. 762.

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Li Po. "A Night With a Friend." The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, 1984.