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The Art of Loving
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"*Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me." Oct 11, 2017 08:50AM

 
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"I could tell that he thought if he was good enough I'd take him home. Maybe that's why he'd always been so quiet and clean as a kid. Maybe he figured if he was good enough his father wouldn't hit me anymore... This line tugged at my tear ducts... *sniffs*" Apr 03, 2013 03:07AM

 
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John  Green
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie -- boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily out of need, but also for the pathological pleasure of killing a god.”
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

José Saramago
“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
José Saramago, Blindness

Osamu Dazai
“Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and social order, but don't all the other animals have them too, granted the difference of degree? Perhaps the animals even have religions. Man boasts of being the lord of all creation, but it would seem as if essentially he does not differ in the least from other animals. But, Mother, there was one way I thought of. Perhaps you won't understand. It's a faculty absolutely unique to man - having secrets. Can you see what I mean?”
Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this."

But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all."

His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.”
Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 12

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