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  • #1
    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #2
    Osamu Dazai
    “I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #3
    Osamu Dazai
    “Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #4
    Osamu Dazai
    “People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #5
    Osamu Dazai
    “I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one’s head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #6
    Osamu Dazai
    “I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #7
    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #8
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “We're all mad here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “Off with their heads!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anais Nin

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
    Anais Nin

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

  • #16
    Anaïs Nin
    “Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
    Anais Nin

  • #17
    Anaïs Nin
    “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #18
    Anaïs Nin
    “I write emotional algebra.”
    Anais Nin

  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “What I cannot love, I overlook.”
    Anais Nin

  • #20
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
    Anais Nin

  • #21
    Anaïs Nin
    “In chaos, there is fertility.”
    Anais Nin

  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #29
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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