"There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar"

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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa