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“Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“How quickly life can end, and how mysterious are the paths leading to death and life. An accumulation of tiny decisions. A few small gestures and life will take a very different course from the one it would have taken an hour or a day ago.”
― The Book of Dreams
― The Book of Dreams
“Jack says when you love something, you must practice and when you're good at something, you must practice even harder. What else are our long lives for?”
― The Book of Dreams
― The Book of Dreams
“This struggle (...between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction) is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization may therefore be simply described as the struggle for life of the human species. And it is this battle that our nurse-maids try to appease with their lullaby about Heaven.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“That's the magic of literature. We read a story, and something happens. We don't know what or why, nor which sentence was responsible, but the world has changed and will never be the same again. Sometimes it take us several years to realize that a book tore a hole in reality through which we could escape from the pettiness and despondency of our surroundings”
― The Book of Dreams
― The Book of Dreams
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Giri’s 2025 Year in Books
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