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Genki Kawamura
“When you think about it, it’s the future you’ll never get to see that you regret missing the most when you die.”
Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

“No Matter What

No matter what the world claims,
its wisdom always growing, so it’s said,
some things don’t alter with time:
the first kiss is a good example,
and the flighty sweetness of rhyme.

No matter what the world preaches
spring unfolds in its appointed time,
the violets open and the roses,
snow in its hour builds its shining curves,
there’s the laughter of children at play,
and the wholesome sweetness of rhyme.

No matter what the world does,
some things don’t alter with time.
The first kiss, the first death.
The sorrowful sweetness of rhyme.”
Mary Oliver, Blue Horses

Oscar Wilde
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
Oscar Wilde

Giacomo Leopardi
“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”
Giacomo Leopardi, Thoughts

Genki Kawamura
“I got so caught up with all the little everyday things that I ended up wasting the time I could have spent on more important things. But the scariest thing is that I never even noticed that I was wasting my precious time.”
Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

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