If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?’ ‘And if the Truth is hidden?’ Toranaga said. ‘It’s already clear,’ Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient...
Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death—we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We’re a gen...
After all those horrors at Changi, you don’t detest them? After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. I don’t detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I’m alive.
Time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.
We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.
The earth’s round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to...
The Legacy began: The duty of a lord of a province is to give peace and security to the people and does not consist of shedding luster on his ancestors or working for the prosperity of his descendants...
Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.
Like every serious student, follow the most important law for all students: repay your teacher by making it your duty to surpass him!
It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.
I can't use hope against swords.
And yet you have faith in the King, Father Donovan said quietly.
An army of helpers for the twenty-eight cooks were preparing the meats and vegetables, plucking chickens, killing fresh fish and lobsters and crabs and cleaning them, doing the thousand tasks that Chi...
Щом се доверяваш на някого и го наемаш заради ума му, дай му възможност да действа. Иначе защо са ти хора, дето само изпълняват заповеди и си налягат парцалите.
Отново съм хванат на тясно. Каквото и да правя, някой все ще умре. А ако не науча езика ви, цяло едно село ще загине. Не правя ли каквото искате от мен, все някой невинен умира. Не виждам изход.- Изхо...
Three big islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu? And thousands of little ones. There’s another island far to the north—some say it’s the mainland—called Hokkaido, but only hairy natives
He’s not very pro-American and it drives him mad that the British Empire’s no more, that the U.S. is arbiter of the world’s fate and making obvious mistakes,
Did. But he was glad her head was deep in his shoulder greatcoat. Again he craned around and caught sight of it, slightly aft and lying flat in the water, now seeming to
And damned nomads in Mesopotamia have again cut the telegraph—another expeditionary force is being organized to deal with them once and for all!