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I hear the words "good old days" a lot recently, but I have to say, for me there really were never any good old days.
When I debuted, I was embarrassed of my work from one year before that.
Ten years ago, I was embarrassed of the work I made one week before that.
Currently, I'm embarrassed at the same time that I actually draw it.
I will probably always be embarrassed of every work that I produce.
I regret the future.
I regret it in advance.

- Koji Kumeta

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honeymoon is over

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"BUT IF YOU KNEW YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT AGAIN TOMORROW, EVERYTHING WOULD SUDDENLY BECOME SPECIAL AND PRECIOUS, WOULDN’T IT?"

~   Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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the creases have been irreversibly made
it is now time to leave this bed

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"I CAN’T GO BACK TO YESTERDAY BECAUSE I WAS A DIFFERENT PERSON THEN."

~   Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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It's hard to appreciate the present when our minds tend to be perpetually set either on fast-forward or on replay

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and the machine marches steadily on