if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.