Erhan

“Seeing a lot of water like that every day is probably an important thing for human beings. For human beings might be a bit of a generalization- but I do know it's important for one person: me. If I go for a time without seeing water, I feel like something's slowly draining out of me. It's probably like the feeling a music lover has when, for whatever reason, he's seperated from music for a long time. The fact that I was raised near the sea might have something to do with it.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. That’s what I told myself. That’s about all I thought about, and that’s what got me through. If I were a living person of blood and flesh I would have collapsed from the pain. There definitely was a being called me right there. And accompanying that is a consciousness that is the self. But at that point, I had to force myself to think that those were convenient forms and nothing more. It’s a strange way of thinking and definitely a very strange feeling—consciousness trying to deny consciousness. You have to force yourself into an inorganic place. Instinctively I realized that this was the only way to survive.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running