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Evil and the Mask Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
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“Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“Happiness is a fortress.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“For example, even if this was some kind of fairy tale with a happy ending, real people's lives keep on going after the story finishes. As a story it ends happily, even if the characters die of something immediately afterwards. In the same way, I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“Every year far more people kill themselves in Japan than die through war or terrorism in Iraq. We go on and on about other countries, but I think Japanese society is pretty cruel too.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“Happiness is a fortress. Because happiness is an enclosed space only a lucky few can enjoy, the lucky few who can turn a blind eye to people like you, people with pain and sorrow, who can turn a blind eye to poverty and hunger.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“The seeds of evil, the mud that never dries, will squirm and grow at every corner of the globe, through humansâ€� unconscious mind and karmic echoes.”
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“Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture â€� these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“maybe the real purpose of war is simply to replicate itself, to create more wars.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“In this world, you must be powerful, because when an able person becomes a cancer, he is formidable, I hear you are highly intelligent. That, however, is thanks to your education thus far. The differences between people are not as great as the differences between the humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people. At present, you have the habit of diligence - in other words, perseverance and willpower. From now on you must also form the habit of resisting the temptation towards inertia or resignation. To purge from your soul any tendency to give up.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“You must resent all happiness. people who have killed cannot attain one hundred percent virtue, but they can attain one hundred percent evil. That is your life path. You have power and money. Destroy everything.By sublimating yourself to the first of hell, to the mighty, evil energy that destroys all people and all joy, you can obtain a piece of an incredible pleasure. Pathetic individuals like serial killers or terrorist bombers will never obtain it. It's an even greater evil. Even greater.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
tags: life
“THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“The differences between people are not as great as the differences between humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“NOW I’M GOING to tell you some important facts about your life.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“The sunlight streaming in through the windows sparkled in her eyes, and the reflection seemed to shine on me as well. I told myself I had to remember those thin, strong beams forever.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“If happiness is a fortress, then it doesn’t matter what you do.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“It can all go to hell. In my dystopia, it can all just disappear!”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“It’s a fever, get it? That fever, that’s what I want. That fever, that flood, heading for doom.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“War is the best business model there is.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“part of us that will survive. Contempt. Contempt for the world, for love, for everything of value, and then contempt for contempt itself.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“It’s not me they’re afraid of. It’s the hell inside me.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“the conscious is the slave of the subconscious.”
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“If you see a person’s room you can pretty much understand them.”
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“it’s like she’s afraid of living.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“Everyone plays the lead role in their own life.”
Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
“Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.”
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