A. Collins
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilization; but no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day.
“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
“You have to be able to trust someone--At least one person--with your life if it's going to be at all worth living.”
― Among Thieves
― Among Thieves
“それは、そうに違いないだろうけれども、人間の心には、もっとわけのわからない、おそろしいものがある。慾、と言っても、言いたりない、ヴァニティ、と言っても、言いたりない、色と慾、とこう二つ並べても、言いたりない、何だか自分にもわからぬが、人間の世の底に、経済だけでない、へんに怪談じみたものがあるような気がして、その怪談におびえ切っている自分には、所謂唯物論を、水の低きに流れるように自然に肯定しながらも、しかし、それに依って、人間に対する恐怖から解放せられ、青葉に向って眼をひらき、希望のよろこびを感ずるなどという事は出来ないのでした。”
― 人間失格
― 人間失格
“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
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