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“Tout était fini... Toutes les fleurs de mon âme étaient arrachées d’un coup et gisaient éparses autour de moi, flétries et piétinées.”
― Ivan Tourgueniev, Premier amour

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat