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I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

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Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

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Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

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I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

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The real things are apt to be deviant.

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For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the exp…

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The weak fear happiness itself.

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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought …

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It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

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What uneasiness lies in being loved.

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