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“That's why I left the apartment. Out on the street, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't the only one here, that I wasn't the only one feeling lonely. But this wasn't the kind of thing you could tell just by looking at a passerby. The harder I tried to see, the less sure I was.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“My wife was the kind of person who didn't think things through. She just loved the things she loved, and hated the things she hated.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me:
he withdrew
he went too far into solitude
and knew — he must’ve known —
you never come back from there”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

“I do not need to contain my appetites.

What is a monster but a creature of agency?”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone