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“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“So you see it was all right in the end. But if one does that sort of thing, one has to be careful to do it in the right way. For, as Mr. Perks said, when he had time to think it over, it's not so much what you do, as what you mean.”
― The Railway Children
― The Railway Children
“Everyone has their own version of a memory,”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences”
― Inescapable Questions
― Inescapable Questions
“We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.”
― The Little Man in The Tower
― The Little Man in The Tower
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