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1 " We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face. "
― Fuminori Nakamura , Evil and the Mask
2 " When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope. "
3 " Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture — these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise. "
4 " Happiness is a fortress. "
5 " You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times. "
6 " Don't you think people make their own choices in life?''They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules. "
7 " Number two becoming number one, that's how life goes. Always demanding the best, that's a strange way of living. "
8 " Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see. "
9 " For example, even if this was some kind of fairy tale with a happy ending, real people's lives keep on going after the story finishes. As a story it ends happily, even if the characters die of something immediately afterwards. In the same way, I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place. "
10 " Every year far more people kill themselves in Japan than die through war or terrorism in Iraq. We go on and on about other countries, but I think Japanese society is pretty cruel too. "
11 " When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape. "
12 " Happiness is a fortress. Because happiness is an enclosed space only a lucky few can enjoy, the lucky few who can turn a blind eye to people like you, people with pain and sorrow, who can turn a blind eye to poverty and hunger. "
13 " The seeds of evil, the mud that never dries, will squirm and grow at every corner of the globe, through humans’ unconscious mind and karmic echoes. "
14 " I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place. "
15 " You must resent all happiness. people who have killed cannot attain one hundred percent virtue, but they can attain one hundred percent evil. That is your life path. You have power and money. Destroy everything.By sublimating yourself to the first of hell, to the mighty, evil energy that destroys all people and all joy, you can obtain a piece of an incredible pleasure. Pathetic individuals like serial killers or terrorist bombers will never obtain it. It's an even greater evil. Even greater. "
16 " In this world, you must be powerful, because when an able person becomes a cancer, he is formidable, I hear you are highly intelligent. That, however, is thanks to your education thus far. The differences between people are not as great as the differences between the humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people. At present, you have the habit of diligence - in other words, perseverance and willpower. From now on you must also form the habit of resisting the temptation towards inertia or resignation. To purge from your soul any tendency to give up. "
17 " Everyone plays the lead role in their own life. "
18 " There are two main ways of making money.One is to develop an attractive product or service and to exchange it for the money in people's wallets. The other is to squeeze money from the government, money they've taken by force in the form of taxes. That way is usually more profitable. Now I'm going to give you a brief lecture about how wars are started. "
19 " THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance. "
20 " The sunlight streaming in through the windows sparkled in her eyes, and the reflection seemed to shine on me as well. I told myself I had to remember those thin, strong beams forever. "
