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“Had he lived longer, Akutagawa might have come to realize that he was far from alone.”
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
“Life is a struggle each person will ultimately lose; the question is how one acts with that knowledge.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
“Defying empire, it turned out, was fun.”
― Babel
― Babel
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