36. Before binding your fate with another's, few can truly know the one they're tying their life to.
37. Some go abroad for higher learning, finding no good chances at home. Some go out seeking peace, finding none in their own house.
38. Those who don't read good books, don't listen to good music, don't watch good films— worse than them are those who do all this yet fail to transform their minds for the better.
39. Yes, I fear your love! Because I know you'll give me that same pain again! One who cannot love without causing hurt— their love I cannot bear. Love that cannot keep one well— what worth is such love!
40. Against your heart's desire, don't marry at someone else's insistence. If it turns out well, fine— but if it goes badly, they won't come to suffer the consequences on your behalf.
41. Living hurts deeply; those who feel no pain won't understand.
42. Every dog, when it howls, believes itself a tiger.
43. If in prayer you ask for long life, ask only for yourself— not for me.
44. If your prayer is answered and you let go of my hand, what if death then delays its coming...!
45. Two kinds of people aren't worth heeding: Those who couldn't do what you've accomplished. Those who can't bear that you've succeeded.
46. Even death is better than you!
At least death never said to me, "You got nothing from life!" the way you did while promising to give something, drawing me close only to leave me more empty!
47. Why did you weep so hard that day at my grave, before everyone? Would they all have caught on to the truth if you'd cried a little less?
48. Beware of one who, though a stranger to you, does a bit too much for you "selflessly"!
49. My eyes that light up at your name— looking into those very eyes, you told me all those lies!
50. You're wrong—I'm not laughing! I'm praying for you.
51. Not only death ends life— some lives also end life.
52. Don't talk so much about yourself— it breeds mistrust in others' ability to understand you.
53. More painful than not receiving love is being forced to pretend to accept love.
54. You have the right to love me, I admit. But where did you get the right to touch me while carrying so much turmoil?
55. The unemployed scarecrow grabs birds by their feet and pleads, "Even if on purpose, even if mistakenly, come sit in the field for just a little while!"
56. All my wounds I spread across the page.
But how do I bandage this bleeding page!?
57. One who tries to extract love in exchange for their love through cruelty— no creature in this world is more wretched than the beloved of such a person.
58. In night's intimate light, with words' sharp blade I pierce myself continuously, every day.
This remorse is my prayer!
59. Don't treat me with such contempt. Apart from loving you, I've never committed any other sin in this life.
60. To kill me, one bullet would suffice— perhaps I could have dodged even that in time, and here you come with a loaded revolver!
Truly, you're so innocent!
61. If you can't find good words, stay silent. No one's ever won a Nobel for speaking ill, and no one's been hanged for the crime of keeping quiet.
62. The importance of marriage is infinite. Because without marrying, you can't truly understand the importance of not marrying.
63. I became prisoner in such a jail that has no guard, no bars— yet from here there is no path of escape!
64. Under the wave's claws, a severed island waits to dissolve...
Into water's womb? Or into coral's core?
65. On the seashore, pebbles and stones await the waves.
To receive water's caress, how much longer must they burn?
66. Once I waited for tenderness. Now I live in fear of tenderness.
67. The thirsty heart quarrels with water.
After the quarrel, becoming water, it drowns in water!
68. Not the wallet— money comes first. Not the person— the heart comes first.
69. Why won't you let me even look at them? When fasting, is it forbidden to look at the menu too?
70. Don't neglect me so. Even if I learn to live on neglect, if one day I stop accepting your neglect, will you be able to survive then?