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«[Its] language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.»
«[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.»
«It is easy to become a monk in one's old age»
Author: Ethiopian Proverb | About: Religion | Keywords: monk
«Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.»
«A monk asked Master Haryo, 'What is the way?' Haryo said, 'An open-eyed man falling into the well»
Author: Zen Koan | Keywords: eyed, monk, open-eyed, The WELL
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
«I felt like poisoning a monk.»
Author: Umberto Eco (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: monk, poisoning
«As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.»
«I am a simple Buddhist monk.»
Author: Dalai Lama | About: Buddhism | Keywords: Buddhist, Buddhists, Buddhist monk, monk

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