

“I was so crazed by my own sufferng that I became blind to the obvious fact that other people, too, were living for all they were worth.”
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

“You never asked me what it was like to spend my life listening as other people spoke. You never asked what it was like to hold those words inside me, to decide what to share, what to insinuate, but mainly what to keep for myself, these glowing and sordid little secrets that sustained me.”
― Cursed Bread
― Cursed Bread

“To attempt something is to be able to do it; to be able to do something is to attempt to do it. Ultimately we are unable to escape this viscous cycle. In other words, we begin and end in absurdity.”
― Kappa
― Kappa

“I've caused people a lot of grief. I haven't written anything worthwhile. It's all bluster. Dishonesty. Cravenness. Lies. Lechery. Cowardice. I don't need to wait for God's judgment, I'm already constantly spilling out lame excuses.”
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

“I discovered that, for me, what might become art was not the scenery of Tokyo, but the "I" inside the scenery. Had I become deluded by art? Had I deluded art? Conclusion: Art is "I".”
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
― Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
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