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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Kafka on the Shore
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error
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