“It got dark and the rain-clouded lights of the stores were soaked up by the black street.”
― The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely
― The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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