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		<description><![CDATA[From Zen and Zen Classics, Volume 1, by Reginald Horace Blyth (1970): Asceticism, found in every religion, is seen too often in people who were pretty bare and empty from the beginning. The desire to be nothing is particularly common among those who are already practically nothing. The other extreme, a Wagnerian wallowing in sensation [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Green Round, by Arthur Machen (1933): &#8220;Has it ever been your fortune, courteous reader,&#8221; the author enquired, &#8220;to rise in the earliest dawning of a summer day, ere yet the radiant beams of the sun have done more than touch with light the domes and spires of the great city? Have you risen [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Three-Cornered World (1906) by Soseki Natsume If pressed for an explanation, I would say that my soul was moving with the spring. Imagine all the colours, breezes, elements and voices of spring solidified, ground to powder and blended together to form an elixir of life, which had then been dissolved in dew gathered [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Studies in Prose and Verse (1908) by Arthur Symons. A man who goes through a day without some fine emotion has wasted his day, whatever he has gained by it. And it is so easy to go through day after day, busily and agreeably, without ever really living for a single instant. Art begins [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Painting in the Far East (1908) by Laurence Binyon. Flowers, Moon, Snow; these three beauties of earth and air have a peculiar glory and consecration in the art of the Far East. A Japanese friend of mine told me that when he was in Paris he woke one morning to find that snow had [...]]]></description>
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