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Reading japanese

When taking up my japanese again, I encountered a suitable passage, which in translation reads:

Going up a mountain track, I fell to thinking. Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along on the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.

This is more or less what I meant when I told you I didn't want to become to soft. Still I am convinced that I would lose your respect if I wouldn't be able to contain myself. Anyway, I probably would lose self respect, which might even be worse.


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