A Quote by Matsuo Basho

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon. — © Matsuo Basho
Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

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Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.
Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.
They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.
I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.
A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.
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