Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ

“[My wife] called, "Pochi, Pochi, your supper's ready," and laughed as she said, "You may have a personality disorder.” A disgusting thought came to mind,
“They say that the dog comes to resemble its owner.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Story of a Pet Dog

“No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do. As a nation, Americans are too superficial—they are striving to get rich quickly, and do not generally do their business as substantially and thoroughly as they should, but whoever excels all others in his own line, if his habits are good and his integrity undoubted, cannot fail to secure abundant patronage and the wealth that naturally follows. Let your motto then always be "Excelsior," for by living up to it there is no such word as fail”
― P.T. Barnum, Art of Getting Money in the 21st Century

“Shall I have to go there ten years hence to keep my old bones warm against the rheumatism and to scorch my bald pate in the heat of the noonday sun?
Shall I die without having seen anything?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Letters And Reminiscences

“Beautifully manipulated and in utter abandonment,
Raising upon the swell of the chanter’s voice,
She weeps and weeps as if to drown herself,
Okaru weeps…”
― Hakushū Kitahara