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“I yearned for everything long gone.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Welcome to Sadness. Population one.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.'

And then smile very serenely until they say, 'Oh.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar