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“The author of the novel probably didn't think about stuff like this. However, it is up to you to decide on what you'll get out of reading the novel. If you only find trash within, then it'll simply end as trash. But if it can impart just a tiny little bit of deeper meaning to you, then that alone will improve this work in your eyes. Again, it is up to you to decide which one it will be. But I'd really like you to choose the option where you get to 'appreciate' your time a little bit better.”
― Singshong (싱숑)

“People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. “I told you so” had not been on the list. The”
― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead

“Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]