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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 21.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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When a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes.

Lady Ho

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Lady Ho. A Song of Magpies. c. 300 BC.

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Lady Ho. "A Song of Magpies." Women Poets of China, edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Zhong. New Directions Publishing, 1982.

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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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The flowers withered,
Their color faded away,
While meaninglessly
I spent my days in the world
And the long rains were falling.

Ono no Komachi

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Ono no Komachi. Kokinshu [Kokin Wakashu]. c. 914.

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Ono no Komachi. "Kokinshu." Anthology of Japanese Literature, edited by Donald Keene. Vol. 1, Grove Press, 1994.

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

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

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co., 1902.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

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Turgenev, Ivan. Two Women. 1855, act 1.

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Turgenev, Ivan. A Month in the Country. Oxford University Press, 1991, act 1.

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Rushdie, Salman."In Good Faith." The Guardian, 10 Feb. 1990.

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

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Murakami, Haruki. ノルウェイの森 [Norwegian Wood]. Kodansha, 1987.

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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Akira Kurosawa

Quoted in The New York Times

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Lyman, Rick. "Akira Kurosawa, Film Director, Is Dead at 88." New York Times, 7 Sept. 1998, Section A, Page 1, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/movies/akira-kurosawa-film-director-is-dead-at-88.html.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." The Years Between. Methuen and Co., 1919, I. 1.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 1.

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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dogen

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Dogen. "Genjo Koan [Actualizing the Fundamental Point]." Shobogenzo, c. 1253.

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

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

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Sei Shonagon. 枕草子 [The Pillow Book]. c. 1002.

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Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Female of the Species." Morning Post, 20 Oct. 1911.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Female of the Species." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015.