Once you’ve given in to that whim, your destiny is decided. There’s no such thing as ‘seeing what happens’ in this life. To do something just to see what happens is exactly the same as just plain doing it.
Please. Fire can’t burn underwater.” “Think before you speak, young master. Water contains oxygen, doesn’t it? Where there’s oxygen, there’s no reason you can’t have fire.
We have a pearl disposal problem down here, you see. After all, if you think about it, they’re just oyster poop.
But there is no limit to a proud and beautiful maiden’s capacity for cruelty.
What the tanuki doesn’t realize is that people who affect to believe all our nonsense often harbor evil and insidious plots in their hearts.
That “purity of youth” often turns out, as in the case of this rabbit, to be a frenzied dance – an indecipherable, sensual mishmash that casually combines murderous hatred with self-intoxication.
Valuing physical sensations above moral considerations is evidence of either mental deficiency or demonic evil.
Inside every woman is a merciless bunny, and inside every man a virtuous tanuki who’s forever floundering as he tries to keep his head above water.
People do not necessarily think and consider in a prescribed way before choosing the path they’ll walk. For the most part they simply wander, at some point, into a different meadow.
The Venerable’ – isn’t that what you call yourself? Trying to find comfort in dreams of a past that will never come again, rather than hope for the future.
Art cannot order people around. Art dies the moment it acquires authority.
Me? Are you kidding? I’m going to Hell.
As long as you have the desire to be somebody, you will not fall into decadence. And you don’t have that kind of goal. You are passionate about wanting to see what it is like to fail.
Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown.
No matter how often I tried, she never once complimented me.
He would never say something in the shadows that he cannot say directly to a person. If there is something he wants to say, he will always tell the person to their face. He was like that at the university, and he is like that now. That is why he is always losing out.
I’m the fool who doesn’t know the limits of stupidity.
If my life could be of some use, I would offer it to anyone.
My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.
You takes things too seriously. It seems you’re not satisfied unless you always make yourself the protagonist in some tragedy.