Life is bearable when you have someone to write, and someone who writes you back. Even if it's just one person.

Even a festival of madness is bound to end at one point. Only loneliness and emptiness remain after a riotous festival. When it's over, the taboos that were lifted like magic will return like magic. I can hear the hour of taboos approaching step by step from far away. A lunatic, unable to deal with the aftermath of the festival, may send down a punishment of taboos. A night of madness may drive someone to madness.

It feels as though the beginning and the end are intertwined, thus leading to a never-ending cycle. Surely this will not be the end. Just as it can't be considered the beginning. Just as it can't be determined where the beginning or the end is.

The discord arises from the fact that we require different amounts of time to accept each other.

In that moment, I felt, for the first time, that nothing brings so much joy in life as being approved of by someone.

But Jiyun, a lot of guys don't live to be true to their nature. In the same way, a lot of girls are not true to their nature. Your question was misguided. There are many reasons, and should be many reasons, besides looks when one person comes to love another. For those reasons, men and women live without sticking to their nature. Love that's based on looks doesn't last long.

What was true beauty? Was it beauty if you found it in something ugly and insignificant?

Everyone makes mistakes. The problem is when they repeat the same mistake over and over again.

Desire has a wicked habit of not knowing its place, and trying to go beyond that.

367 said that the most pathetic person in the world was someone who worried that he would die without having spent all the money he had. An even more pathetic person, he said, was someone who had a lot of money but ended his own life without having spent it all.