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navisses · 9 months

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Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, 'I don't believe it; boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.' I dare say you don't, Mrs Grundy, but it's true, nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings.

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

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navisses · 2 years

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And that is the problem with caring for someone, isn't it? You grow attached, they become a part of your life and you gladly take care of them. You learn all their likes and dislikes, how they take their tea and how they make their sandwiches. You learn about their friends and meet their family. You get to know them in a way that no one else does and you get comfortable. And then? Then they are gone. Maybe they don't leave your life, but they go back to their home and you will be left with all your love, sitting here - in an empty home - with no one to give it to. No one to cook dinner for and no one to pick up when it rains and no one to laugh with while hanging up laundry in the middle of the night. What do you do then? How do you deal with that?

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navisses · 2 years

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And finally I feel my heart begin to break, splitting in two, / Becoming one absolutely with the universe that arches over us both.

Takamura Koutarou in "Two at the Foot of a Mountain"

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navisses · 2 years

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Evening Star

The clouds are adrift and torn to rags / Around one star in the evening sky - / But though its radiance is shallow still / Its love is deep as ever in the sea of sky.

O, a sheperd in Chaldea / Saw you four thousand years ago - / And though your light is young for ever / Our world has now become so old.

Your sparkling light seems wet with dew - / Are you weeping for the men of earth? / Contentment in our world is far away, / Hidden by clouds of struggling anxiety and weariness.

-Tsuchii Bansui (1871-1952)

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navisses · 2 years

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This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

Dazai Osamu - The Setting Sun

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navisses · 2 years

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'They say that people who like summer flowers die in the summer. I wonder if its true.' 'I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.'

Dazai Osamu - The Setting Sun

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navisses · 2 years

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When I sit here with you this way, it makes me feel as if everything that has happened was just a dream.

Dazai Osamu - The Setting Sun

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navisses · 2 years

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It occurred to me then that Mother's face rather resembled that of the unfortunate snake we had just seen, and I had the feeling, for whatever reason, that the ugly snake dwelling in my breast might one day end by devouring this beautiful, grief-stricken mother snake.

Dazai Osamu - The Setting Sun

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navisses · 2 years

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The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

Dazai Osamu - The Setting Sun

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navisses · 2 years

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I have always shook with fright before human beings.

Dazai Osamu - No longer Human

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navisses · 2 years

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It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

Dazai Osamu - No longer Human

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navisses · 2 years

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My apprehension on discovering that my concept of happiness seemed to be completely at variance with that of everyone else was so great as to make me toss sleeplessly and groan night after night in my bed. It drove me indeed to the brink of lunacy.

Dazai Osamu - No longer Human

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navisses · 2 years

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"Did she die free?" "As the mountain air."

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

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navisses · 2 years

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Ich will Euch warnen und Euch Euer Glück beim wahren Namen nennen. Es ist entstanden aus dem Unglück anderer. Alles habt Ihr, und dies alles ist gebildet aus dem Nichts der anderen. Mylords, ich bin der hoffnungslose Anwalt, der eine verlorene Sache verteidigt.

Victor Hugo - Der lachende Mann

I want to warn you and call your luck by its true name. It arose out of the misfortune of others. You have everything, and all of this is formed from the nothing of the others. My lords, I am the hopeless lawyer defending a lost cause.