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Ryō Nagafuji
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“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite? I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart...”
― The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
― The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
“In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep”
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seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep”
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“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being which, were it to continue, would become ineligible: but I thank providence, both for the good which I have already enjoyed, and for the power with which I am endowed of escaping the ills that threaten me.”
― On Suicide
― On Suicide
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