Ha Nguyen

“When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they’ll be talking about you and me. We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth”
― George Orwell, 1984