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“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What makes you conclude that man’s wanting so necessarily needs to be corrected?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“….while human nature acts as an entire whole, with everything that is in it, consciously and unconsciously, and though it lies, still it lives.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground