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I feel boundless anger against parental authority, which crushed me under the high-sounding name of parental love, and against state and social authority, which abused me in the name of universal love.

— Kaneko Fumiko Because I Wanted To (1923)

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Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.

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My presence will shortly be effaced from this earth. I believe, however, that every phenomenon continues as such to exist in eternal actuality even though it be physically obliterated.

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I ran for all I was worth, radiant at the thought that I was leaving all behind and going to the salvation of death.

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They say that sincerity moves heaven.

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I felt at that moment as if my one remaining lifeline had been severed. I was plunged into an abyss of despair where even tears were irrelevant.

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