

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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