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Snow Country

by Yasunari Kawabata

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“If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be.”
― Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph

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“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”
― Mario Puzo, Fools Die

tags: betrayal, hurt, life, love, woman

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“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”
― Ryū Murakami, Almost Transparent Blue

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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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