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“toast goast”
― mr. horne

“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. But I know you wouldn't allow it.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Despite knowing we will one day be bereft, despite knowing we will one day disappear, we still strive in wretched ways. We still wish to be beautiful.”
― Sui Ishida

“If I like something, then my heart will not have room for any other, and I’ll always treasure it. A thousand times, a million times, no matter how many years, this will not change. This poem is the same.”
― 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“身在无间，心在桃源。”
― 墨香铜臭, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human.”
― ishida sui