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“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
“De mon côté, je t'en ai beaucoup voulu, et puis je me suis fait des reproches, mais dans cette vie misérable que nous menions, nous, Japonais, je me suis aperçu qu'il fallait avoir de l'empathie pour notre propre jeunesse.”
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“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Poser beaucoup de questions était sa manière d'analyser les autres. La plupart du temps, les pensées des gens se voyaient confirmées plus tard par leurs actions. Il avait remarqué que l'on disait plus souvent la vérité que des mensonges et que très peu de personnes savaient mentir correctement. A ses yeux, il n'y avait rien de plus décevant que de découvrir la banalité des autres, c'est pourquoi il préférait les femmes intelligentes aux idiotes, et les travailleuses aux oisives.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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