#jp lit

"We were too accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously."

"Men who start by burning books end by burning other men."

“He knew now that a more comprehensive view of the world was to be had from physical depression than from intelligence, from a dull pain in the entrails than from reason, a loss of appetite than analysis.”

“All puffed up by illusions born of abstract concepts, you strut about as the master of a destiny even though you have none of the qualifications. You think you have seen to the ends of the earth. But you have not once had an invitation beyond the horizon. You have nothing to do with light or enlightenment, there is no real spirit in flesh or in heart.”

“‘I’m too involved in my dream-world,’ he thought while still in the middle of this one. ‘They’ve spilled over into reality. They’re a flood that’s sweeping me away.’”

“It isn’t easy to live a normal life, though. Parents, teachers, government — they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

“I’ve always seen myself as an empty person, lacking color and identity. Maybe that was my role in the group. To be empty.”

“And so he had until now used all emotions to draw a line between emotion and self-respect, and, avoiding the danger of love, armed himself with countless thorns.”