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

“La sève bouillonnait en moi, et mon cœur languissait d’une façon douce et plaisamment romanesque. J’attendais je ne sais quoi, je m’intimidais, je m’étonnais et j’étais toujours sur le quivive. Mon imagination vagabondait et voltigeait rapidement autour des mêmes images, comme, à l’aube, les martinets autour du clocher.”
― Ivan Tourgueniev, Premier Amour

“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

“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