Dana

“A love between them that would last until the moment their true love came true.
A love that was so straightforward and so terribly twisted.
The sight of them was so delicate and precious−and so horribly wrong.”
― Narita,Ryohgo

“It is old...But, do you know, when you have once grasped it clearly, everything becomes so insignificant! I consider my ideas very important, yet they too turn out to be insignificant - and would be, even if it were as possible to carry them out as it was to surround this bear. And so one passes one's life finding distraction in hunting or in work, merely not to think of death.”
― Liev Tolstoi

“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatality and destiny that is divin; while the three great problems of this century, the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness, continue unresolved; while in some regions social asphyxia remains possible; in other words, and in still wider terms, while ignorance and povery persist on earth, books such as this cannot fail to be of value.

Hauteville House, I January 1862”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I am grabbed by the scruff of the neck and pitched clean out of the room. It seems that this sudden aversion stems from human disgust with those barely visible and totally insignificant insects which I harbor. A heartless and most callous attitude! How can such inconsiderate behavior possibly be justified by the presence in my coat of one or two thousand footling fleas? The answer is, of course, that Article One of those Laws of Love (by which all humans creatures regulate their lives) specifically enjoins that «ye shall love one another for so long as it serves thine individual interest.»”
― Natsume Soseki, 我是猫