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“... it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Translators transport nations into other nations. They are the first to reckon with distant modes of feeling. Even their mistakes are evidence of a positive force. Translation is our salvation. It draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.”
― Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions

“My conscience was pricked by the happiness of being loved. Or perhaps I was craving some still more decisive unhappiness.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“They have based research off those like me. It’s been peer reviewed. It‘s very reliable. They have learned quite a lot. The odds of a neural mismatch that bad have gone down, and everyone knows that if someone says that it‘s 95% odds, that means no one you know will get it. Because surely you don‘t know twenty people. You are not one in twenty people. Surely.”
― Marissa Meyer