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“Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
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