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“Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others."

The "world," after all, was still a place of bottomless horror.

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool.
Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”

It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved."

"He was an angel," and we are suddenly made to realize the incompleteness of Yozo's portrait of him-self. In the way that most men fail to see their own cruelty, Yozo had not noticed his gentleness and his capacity for love.”