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“There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.”
― Henry Darger

“Oddly enough, living only for one’s emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“I felt for her a love that was close to pious faith. You may find it odd that I use a specifically religious word to describe my feelings for a young woman, but real love, I firmly believe, is not so different from the religious impulse. Whenever I saw her face, I felt that I myself had become beautiful.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

“It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart