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Matsuo Bashō
“Should I hold it in my hand,
it will melt in my burning tears.
Autumnal frost.”
Matsuo Bashō

Haruki Murakami
“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

John Steinbeck
“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then -the glory- so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. And I guess a man's importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men. ”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Qiu Miaojin
“For a long time, my hidden shame had made me push everyone away. I'd rejected them before they could reject me. I ran away from close relationships even with the people who loved me. I was a blind man fallen into the ocean.”
Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

Sayaka Murata
“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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