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“I had spent my whole life thinking that society must certainly be something powerful, harsh and severe, but to hear Horiki talk made the words "Don't you mean yourself?" come to the tip of my tongue.[...]
Society won't stand for it.
It's not society. You're the one who won't stand for it-right?
If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it.
It's not society. It's you, isn't it?
Before you know it, you'll be ostracized by society.
It's not society. You're going to do the ostracisizing, aren't you?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The perks of being queer.”
― Racquel Marie, Ophelia After All

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human