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“Please, don't be afraid of being happy. Becoming happy isn't the same thing as accepting your current misfortune. It means creating a new happiness out of your current misfortune.”
― Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch, Vol. 1 - manga
― Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch, Vol. 1 - manga
“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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“Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
Kren’s 2025 Year in Books
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