The Bonsai of Thought: Two Hundred and One

1. : Forgive me.
I didn't know that loving was a crime.
: Love is no crime,
but being a nuisance is — even when done with love!

2. When the person you care for
stays online but doesn't reply,
don't demand explanations,
if you wish to spare them the torment of making excuses.

3. Ill-tempered women never receive love—
not even... from their husbands, not even from their children!

Everyone falls silent before them...
out of fear, not love.

4. There is no greater prayer
than the absence of complaint.

5. An enlightened person's greatest enemy
is another enlightened person.

6. : You have such wonderful cooking skills!
Just for this, so many of your faults can be forgiven.
: I know. That's precisely why I learned to cook so well.

7. Come with time in your hands,
if you wish to make that time beautiful.

8. Either don't mingle with anyone except me,
or mingle in secret.

Don't keep me in sorrow,
rather keep me in darkness.

9. All these years after you left,
you remain trapped within my body
like an incurable disease.

10. Ah, what joy it brings...
to be freed from solitude!

11. : What do you seek in songs?
: Sorrow... only sorrow and tears.
: Why?
: To find you.

12. : Will you never love me?
: I will, from the day I no longer have to hide anything from you.

13. I want to stay with you all my life.
The day you cast me away,
from that day I want to live the rest of my life with you.

14. I admit, the first day I kissed you forcibly.
But why did you let me? Why didn't you resist?

15. Don't move, stay still like this.
When you stay still,
it becomes easier to mistake your body for my own.

16. : I want to stay with you all my life.
: Stop it. Just do what you're doing.
: What do you mean?
: My ex used to say the same thing at special moments.

17. I want to be that artist
who cares only for his own soul,
no one else's.

18. I want to sleep with you.
I mean sleep means I really want to sleep.
And when I wake, I want to see you first.

19. : Your eyes are so beautiful.
: Look at my eyes, not my chest, when you say that.

20. One who has no one to talk to,
if they don't enjoy reading books,
will go mad very quickly.