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I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.