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#1

“to love is both to seek and to be sought”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

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#2

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

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#3

“What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#4

“Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#5

“God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#6

“What is society but an individual?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#7

“Extremely tragic is a good description of you.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#8

“here are the lost years won back with words,”
― Philippe Besson, In the Absence of Men

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#9

“I listen to you, but all I want to remember is your skin, your smell, the life that pulses within you.”
― Philippe Besson, In the Absence of Men

tags: gay, young-love

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#10

“I need to say everything before I die, I cannot die carrying this secret, this amazing secret.”
― Philippe Besson, In the Absence of Men

tags: in-the-closet

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#11

“What one believes when one is sixteen is more powerful than any truth.”
― Philippe Besson, In the Absence of Men

tags: beliefs, youth

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#12

“Always we desire too much or not enough and we compensate accordingly.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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#13

“In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

tags: love

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#14

“It's the most simple words that destroy us.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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#15

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

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#16

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: home

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#17

“...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: freedom

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#18

“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: humanity-and-society, sad

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#19

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#20

“I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#21

“To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#22

“To love something, then, is to name it after something so worthless it might be left untouched—and alive.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#23

“When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#24

“What is a country but a life sentence?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#25

“I run thinking I will outpace it all, my will to change being stronger than my fear of living.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#26

“It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: beauty

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#27

“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#28

“Let me begin again.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: first-lines, opening-lines

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#29

“Let me tie my shadow to your feet and call it a friendship, I said to myself.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#30

“a bullet without a body is a song without ears.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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