That "one seed"!

Carmine 2022-04-23 07:05:23

"This is an anxious nation: one doesn't know what to do, so they go crazy together. So I don't hate any individual Japanese."

"You're the victim of people who think they're right; but nobody's right... Sometimes victory can be overwhelming."

"You are the victim of man who thinks they are right, just as one day, you and your captain Yanoi, believe absolutely that you were right."

"It seems that the death of Cyrils sowed a seed in Yonoi's heart, so we all shared the growth of the seed."

"That caused a little turbulence in Shi Yejing's stagnant heart, and planted a seed that symbolized human nature, selfish desires, and all beautiful thoughts."

[The cigarette with the chrysanthemum drawn burns in the hands of the introverted, the knife swings at himself again and again]

In the spring,

Obeying the August spirits

I went to fight the enemy.

In the Fall,

Returning I beg spirits,

To receive also the enemy.

——Yanoi

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence quotes

  • [last lines]

    Sgt. Gengo Hara: Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!

  • Group Capt. Hicksley: [about something Yonoi just said] What the hell's Gyo?

    Col. John Lawrence: Uh... It's a Japanese cure for laziness.

    Group Capt. Hicksley: Laziness! Jesus Christ, what makes he...

    Col. John Lawrence: Why don't you listen? He means *spiritual* laziness, and he believes that if he takes away the food and the water, then he also takes away the nourishment of laziness.

    Group Capt. Hicksley: You don't believe that bullshit, do you?

    Col. John Lawrence: I don't fucking know! Sir, I will tell you something that may surprise you! If *we* do it, *he'll* do it.