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“The silence of the earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens. The mystery of earth was one with the mystery of the stars. . . Alyosha stood, gazed, and suddenly threw himself down on the earth. He did not know why he embraced it. He could not have been told why he longed so irresistibly to kiss it, to kiss it all. But he kissed it weeping, sobbing and watering it with his tears, and vowed passionately to love it, to love it for ever and ever. 'Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears,' echoed in his soul.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Here I've torn my heart asunder before you, and you seize the opportunity and are fingering the wounds in both halves. . . Oh, my god.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated--defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself onto the heart: I know about that.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen