“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
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“Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“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]
“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
Rose’s 2025 Year in Books
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