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“Know this: we are a long time dead. Life may be short, but it is sweet.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat
everybody at everything?”
― Osamu Dazai, 庭 [Niwa]

“She was gentle and pale,
and her eyes seemed
always to dream
of something I didn’t understand.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“When you come face to face with absolute reliability, you tend, first of all, to burst into silly laughter. You just come all undone. It's like-this is a funny way to put it, I know, but it's like chuckling with relief after loosening your belt. Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated. By no means must you reproach her. She has merely been overwhelmed by the absolute reliability she senses in you.”
― Osamu Dazai