Flower Blossoms

“You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selves.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

“Hey, I was thinking - maybe the Devil's behind this whole thing after all [...] The Devil always appear in the world in a different form. You know the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the second half of the thirteenth century? Half of the population died. Can you believe that? Half, that's like the population of Japan being reduced to sixty million. Naturally, artists at the time likened the plague to the Devil. It's like that now, too - don't we talk about AIDS as if it were a modern Devil? But listen, devils never drive humanity to extinction. Why? Because of people cease to exist, so do devils. The same with viruses. If the host cell perishes, the virus can't survive”
― Kōji Suzuki, Ring

“Sometimes when one is given the answers up front it dulls one's intuition. My intuition has already led me to a conclusion. And now that I have that in mind, I'll twist any phenomenon to rationalize holding onto that conclusion. It's like that in criminal investigations, too, isn't it? Like you get the notion that 'he's the guy', it suddenly seems like all evidence agrees with you. See, we can't afford to wander off the trail here. I need you to back up my conclusion. That is, I want to see, once you've taken a look at the evidence, if your intuition tells you the same thing mine told me.”
― Kōji Suzuki, Ring