Rodrigo

“When I had lived in this world for twenty years, I understood that it was a world worth living in.At twenty-five I realized that light and dark are sides of the same coin; that wherever the sun shines, shadows too must fall.Now, at thirty, here is what I think:where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.If you try to sever the two, life falls apart.Try to control them, and you will meet with failure.Money is essential, but with the increase of what is essential to you, anxieties will invade you even in sleep.Love is a happy thing, but as this happy love swells and grows heavy, you will yearn instead for the happy days before love came into your life.”
― Natsume Sōseki,Kusamakura

“And because I am an artist I find any passage of a novel interesting even when it is out of context. I find it interesting talking to you - so much so in fact that I'd like to talk to you every day while I'm here. I'll even fall in love with you if you'd like; that would be particularly interesting. But however deeply I were to fall in love with you it would not mean that we had to get married. If you think that marriage is the logical conclusion to falling in love, then it becomes necessary to read novels through from beginning to end.”
― Natsume Sōseki, The Three-Cornered World

“Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated.”
― Osamu Dazai, Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun