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“In a world where even a refined lady like that has to stoop to such schemes, maybe it's impossible to survive without having a dark side. Is it possible that morality in this world is like that game where a card counts against you unless you can push
it on someone else?”

“Who in the world is this person I sit here waiting for every day? What sort of person is it? Or is it even a person at all? I don't like people. Or, rather, I'm afraid of them.”

“I, for one, am no good. And yet, even as I say this, an obstinate sort of self-belief, deeply rooted in some dark, hidden corner of my heart, insists that at least there's one good thing about me.. And that only leaves me all the more confused about myself, trapped in this oppres-sive, intolerable state of mind.”

“But to die at one's own hand seems to me the greatest of sins, so I've decided to leave you instead and to begin living the sort of life I feel is correct. I'm sure the rest of the world sees nothing wrong with the way you've chosen to live, but the truth is, you scare me, and I simply can't go on like this.”

“I waited and waited to see them in bloom: the peach trees this year. I heard they'd be white.. these flowers are crimson.”

“I waited and waited to see them in bloom: the peach trees this year. I heard they'd be white.. these flowers are crimson.”

“We hate the sin but never the sinner.”