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"This is actually so captivating so far, also I love unapolagetically violent political action." — Dec 25, 2025 07:54PM
"This is actually so captivating so far, also I love unapolagetically violent political action." — Dec 25, 2025 07:54PM
“And just as the Japanese amuse themselves by filling a porcelain bowl with water and steeping in it little crumbs of paper which until then are without character or form, but, the moment they become wet, stretch themselves and bend, take on colour and distinctive shape, become flowers or houses or people, permanent and recognisable, so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann’s park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and of its surroundings, taking their proper shapes and growing solid, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea.”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way
“the forms of things, including that of the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds, were either obliterated or had been so long dormant as to have lost the power of expansion which would have allowed them to resume their place in my consciousness.”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way
“Izumo stood, the branches of the young pine brushing his hair, and Misaki beamed. No matter what he grew into, she was excited to see it. This time she wouldn’t miss a moment of it. Holding Izumo’s hand, she bowed toward the black pine a last time. Until tomorrow, Mamoru.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“to him, that anguish which lies in knowing that the creature one adores is in some place of enjoyment where oneself is not and cannot follow—to him that anguish came through Love, to which it is in a sense predestined, by which it must be equipped and adapted; but when, as had befallen me, such an anguish possesses one’s soul before Love has yet entered into one’s life, then it must drift, awaiting Love’s coming, vague and free, without precise attachment, at the disposal of one sentiment to-day, of another to-morrow, of filial piety or affection for a comrade.”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way
“I’m sorry I left you in silence all this time,” Takeru said. “I don’t know if I understand it… but I am glad we fought today.” Misaki nodded. “Me too.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
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