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- A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes…
- He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the…
- Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt…
- However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their…
- If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To…
- The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
- Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up…
- History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in…
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