“That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“ما المرأة إلا الأفق الذي تشرق منه شمس السعادة على هذا الكون فتنير ظلمته ، والبريد الذي يحمل على يده نعمة الخالق إلى المخلوق ، والهواء المتردد الذي يهب الإنسان حياته وقوّته ، والمعراج الذي تعرج عليه النفوس من الملأ الأدنى إلى الملأ الأعلى ، والرسول الإلهي الذي يطالع المؤمن في وجهه جمال الله وجلاله ”
― ماجدولين
― ماجدولين
“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
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