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“i have no way to honor my baby—no grave, no memorial. . .i’ve made myself her cemetery.”
― Chevy Stevens, Still Missing

“i have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor's woes can be. practical troubles, griefs that can be assuaged if only there is enough to eat—these may be the most intense of all burning hells, horrible enough to blast to smithereens my ten misfortunes, but that is precisely what i don't understand: if my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?”
― Osamu Dazai

“Listen, if there’s a hell, we’re in it. And if there’s a heaven, we’re already there. This is it.”
― Mieko Kawakami

“Ladies and gentleman! You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes!
I give you...the average man!!”
― Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke