Ken

“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year.
After all I am alive only by accident.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood