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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    Osamu Dazai
    “I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Osamu Dazai
    “Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
    Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

  • #5
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
    John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت

  • #7
    Osamu Dazai
    “I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
    Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

  • #8
    Osamu Dazai
    “What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #9
    Osamu Dazai
    “He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #10
    Charles Cros
    “…et puis on recommence encore le lendemain
    avec seulement la même règle que la veille
    et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares
    de même que les gr-andes douleurs
    comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin…”
    Charles Cros

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Donna Tartt
    “Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #13
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #14
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

  • #15
    Gege Akutami
    “My six eyes tell me you're Suguru Geto. But my soul knows otherwise!”
    Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 11 [Jujutsu Kaisen 11]



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