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In 1506, Machiavelli received a letter from a friend, who had recently read the first part of his history of the decade they’d just lived through. The friend urged Machiavelli to write more. Why? Because, he said, without a good history of
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“Now, too, I felt reassured by the expression on Mrs. Izumi and Sugawara’s faces: Good, I pulled off being a “person.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Even as an adult, my sister entrusted the keys of her life to other people. Didnt that scare her? How could she be so cheerful?”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“I was a tool for the town's good, in two senses.
Firstly, I had to study hard to become a work tool.
Secondly, I had to be a good girl, so I could become a reproductive organ for the town.”
― Earthlings
Firstly, I had to study hard to become a work tool.
Secondly, I had to be a good girl, so I could become a reproductive organ for the town.”
― Earthlings
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