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"A bit confused in some parts because many of the things he claims are Liverpool culture is very common where I’m from and I’m wondering if he’s mixing up working class culture with Liverpool-only or something. “We say-“ yeah so does everyone else I know and I’ve never been to Liverpool nor has anybody I know ?? So I’m a bit confused" — 12 hours, 24 min ago
"A bit confused in some parts because many of the things he claims are Liverpool culture is very common where I’m from and I’m wondering if he’s mixing up working class culture with Liverpool-only or something. “We say-“ yeah so does everyone else I know and I’ve never been to Liverpool nor has anybody I know ?? So I’m a bit confused" — 12 hours, 24 min ago
“But you can’t mean—” gasped Rainsford. “And why not?” “I can’t believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a grisly joke.” “Why should I not be serious? I am speaking of hunting.” “Hunting? Good God, General Zaroff, what you speak of
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“I know how affected this sounds, but I want to die so bad I can’t stand it. From the time I was born, all I’ve ever thought about is dying. It would be better for everybody if I did—that’s clear enough. But I can’t seem to do it. Some strange kind of, fearsome kind of god keeps stopping me... My work means nothing. I have no masterpieces and no spectacular failures. If people say a piece is good, it’s good, and if they say it’s bad, it’s bad. It’s like breathing—in and out, in and out. What scares me is that, somewhere in this world, there is a God. There really is one, right?... There is a God, right?”
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
“I’m afraid I don’t really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I’ve never met or known to exist. I’m a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can’t write one line- I can’t write a word- about it.”
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
― Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
“Robbers, thieves, smugglers, and cheats know their own local and personal circumstances and conditions extremely well, and pay the most active attention to their business; but it by no means follows therefrom, that society is in the best condition where such individuals are at least restrained in the exercised of their private industry.”
― National System of Political Economy
― National System of Political Economy
“Do you remember my friend Fumiko Kobayashi? She loaned me a book by a university professor named Taki Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Patterns of Behaviour, and she writes that death, particularly voluntary death, is surrounded in this country by a heroic, romantic, aesthetic and emotional aura. She says we often find it hard to communicate and use suicide to make our ideas, or beliefs, or sufferings known. I don't know whether I believe that or not.”
― Letters from Sachiko: A Japanese Woman's View of Life in the Land of the Economic Miracle
― Letters from Sachiko: A Japanese Woman's View of Life in the Land of the Economic Miracle
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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