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“Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?”
― Atsuko Asano, No.6, Volume 8

“I found out for the first time that things like this could happen. That a helping hand could be extended miraculously like that... you were the first one that taught me. Like all of these―" Nezumi slowly looked about his room. "―these thousand of stories here, you taught me that sometimes we encounter the most unexpected things. And that's why I was able to survive..." he lapsed into momentary silence. "So you're right. There are times when people are saved by other people. And you're the one that taught me that. You were the only one that taught me that. The debt I owe for that is high― unfortunately for me.”
― Atsuko Asano, No.6, Vol. 1

“But Safu..." Karan said the same words again softly, in her heart.

But Safu, you know, women can go on living without a man. It'll be painful, and it might feel like your limb has been torn away, but you'll still be able to live on carrying that wound. Even with that burden, one day you'll be able to laugh again. That's why― please, don't put your life on the line for any man. Please, live for your own sake.”
― Atsuko Asano

“I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”
― Hemingway Ernest, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“And that was the end of the beginning of that”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“However you make your living is where your talent lies”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“You did not have to like it because you understood it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“I’d like to destroy you a few times in bed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.”
― Rampo Edogawa, The Edogawa Rampo Reader

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.”
― Sakaguchi Ango

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead