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“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

“In one of your letters, you had asked me whether, despite all that I’ve been through, I continued to believe – in truth, in beauty, in kindness, in goodness, and in trust and belief itself.

Officer Zheng,

I am now able to tell you, that because of Bei Ye, and solely because of Bei Ye, my answer is “Yes”.”
― Jiu Yue Xi, 少年的你，如此美丽

“I hate this city.

Thankfully, I wasn’t able to meet you earlier – if I had met you earlier, I would have fallen in love with every single person in this city.

And that would have killed me.”
― Jiu Yue Xi, The Youthful You Who Was So Beautiful

“Silence that is what she strives for, so that she can be invisible.”
― Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum