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“Some lives are all too brief, while others are a continual struggle. I couldn’t help thinking that it was a brutal assessment of people’s lives to employ usefulness to society as a yardstick by which to measure their value.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“perhaps we could all fly if we were as dead-confident-sure of our capacity to do it as was bold Peter Pan that evening”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“People’s lives never stay the same colour forever. There are times when the colour of life changes completely.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo