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“The human heart harbors two conflicting sentiments. Everyone of course sympathizes with people who suffer misfortunes. Yet when those people manage to overcome their misfortunes, we feel a certain disappointment. We may even feel (to overstate the case somewhat) a desire to plunge them back into those misfortunes. And before we know it, we come (if only passively) to harbor some degree of hostility toward them.”
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
“A man crushed by reality puts on a show of endurance. If that's beyond your comprehension, dear reader, then you and I will never understand each other. Life's a farce, so we might as well make it a good one. But real life is a realm that I may never reach. The best that I can hope for is to loiter in the memory of these four days, so steeped with empathy. Four days that count more than five or ten years of my life. Four days that count more than a lifetime.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
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“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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