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“Because of an hereditary recklessness, I have been playing always a losing game since my childhood.”
― Botchan
― Botchan
“How cruel of you. What part of what you see here is carefree? If only you could understand the sadness of the ones who grow the delicate flowers of buffoonery, protecting them from but the slightest gust of wind and always on the verge of despair!”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“Finally, I became aware of the possibility that K had experienced loneliness as terrible as mine, and wishing to escape quickly from it, had killed himself. Once more, fear gripped my heart.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“What part of what you see here is carefree? If only you could understand the sadness of the ones who grow the delicate flowers of buffoonery, protecting them from but the slightest gust of wind and always on the verge of despair!”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
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