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21 " Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather describe Mitsuru’s beauty? "
― Natsuo Kirino , Grotesque
22 " I looked at Yuriko’s face and was horrified. I had never seen her look more beautiful. She was almost godlike. It was the first time I had ever had that experience. She seemed to be more an effigy than a human being, too beautiful to be a creature of this world. "
23 " It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness. "
24 " It gave me a great deal of pleasure, as I have already said, to indulge in these fantasies. I would join clubs, make friends, and live an ordinary life like any other ordinary person. But reality tore these dreams to shreds. "
25 " Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation. "
26 " ..Bu yolu seçti, çünkü insan alemini yöneten kurallar hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmek istiyordu. İnsanların nasıl böylesine karanlık ve bencil tutkular besleyebileceğini anlamak istiyordu.Bütün insanlar ölür. Ama ölümden sonra onlara ne olur? Ruhun bir bedenden diğerine geçmesi mümkün mü? "
27 " Nihai analizde, dine bulaşan insanlar yalnızca kendi kişisel mutluluklarının peşinde gibidir. Yanılıyor muyum? "
28 " A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction. "
29 " The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once. "
30 " For a nymphomaniac like myself, I suppose there could be no job more suitable than prostitution; it is my God-given destiny. No matter how violent a man might be, or how ugly, at the moment we're in the act I cannot help but love him. And what's more I'll grant his every wish, no matter how shameful. In fact, the more twisted my partner is, the more attracted I will be to him, because my ability to meet my lover's demands is the one way I can feel alive.That is my virtue. It is also my biggest flaw. I can't deny a man. I'm like a vagina incarnate—female essence embodied. If I ever were to deny a man, I would stop being me. "
31 " Someone speak to me. Call out to me and take me out. Please, please, I'm begging you, say something kind to me.Tell me I'm pretty, tell me I'm sweet.Invite me out for coffee, or more...Tell me that you want to spend the day with me and me alone. "
32 " If people can’t stand being alone, they have no choice but to die. "
33 " In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it’s gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted. "
34 " was the first time I noticed that the men who embrace me, every single one of them, end up with an expression of emptiness when they are done, as if they have lost something. Maybe that is why I am always in search of a new man. Maybe that is why I am now a prostitute. "
35 " it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once. "