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“God, I ask you, is non-resistance a sin?”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Everything he said seemed exceedingly obvious, and undoubtedly true, but I felt sure that something more obscure, more frightening lurked in the hearts of human beings. Greed did not cover it, nor did vanity. It was simply a combination of lust and greed. I wasn't sure what it was, but I felt that there was something inexplicable at the bottom of human society that was not reducible to economics.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Ishould like to record that as I manipulated the peeling lacquerchopsticks to eat my jelly, I felt unbearably lonely. ”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“wI had always thought that life was something wonderful, something to be savored and enjoyed. But now I realize it's just an endless cycle of pain and suffering.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Although I had a moral dread of human beings I seemed quite unable to renounce their society. I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement preformed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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