Clarisse

“Le sentiment que l'homme supporte le plus difficilement est la pitié, surtout quand il la mérite. La haine est un tonique, elle fait vivre, elle inspire la vengeance; mais la pitié tue, elle affaiblit encore notre faiblesse.”
― Honoré de Balzac, La Peau De Chagrin

“His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.”
― Haruki Murakami

“[The subjunctive] may not serve any concrete purpose, but it does give you some kind of training to help you grasp things in general more systematically.”
― Haruki Murakami