"Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are."

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Source : Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

Osamu Dazai

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“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.420, Simon and Schuster
“I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of course an awful lot of my colleagues are involved with Instagram - they get likes and dislikes, maybe just likes, I don't know - but I think that it's far less self-contained, the world I work in. It goes off in different directions, and is dependent on responses different from a tick or a like or whatever.”

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“Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.”
“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.”
“Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.”
“You cannot live with a paw in each world.”
“I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.”

Source : Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.124, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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