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Long ago, many of the small hells that took place in the camps right next to my house showed the joy of living, and tirelessly despite everything

— Osamu Tezuka

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What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

I am convinced that comics should not only make people laugh. For this in my stories found tears, anger, hatred, pain and end not always happy.

I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures

I first followed the comics of Tagawa Suihō and Yokoyama Ryūichi. But suddenly, once I became devoted to Disney, I set out to copy and master that stuffed-animal style, eventually ending up with how I now draw.

Tezuka Osamu and American Comics (1973)

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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