“Always keep your eyes open. Don't block your own sunshine. Be filled with wonder.”
― Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
― Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“It was a relationship, and also not a relationship. Each of our gestures felt spontaneous, and if from the outside we resembled a couple, that was an interesting coincidence for us. We developed a joke about it, which was meaningless to everyone including ourselves: what is a friend? we would say humorously. What is a conversation?”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Your atom, I think it will never go back to peace, to cereal or rocks or anything like that. Once it has been seduced there is no way back, the way is always ahead, and it is so much harder after the passage from innocence. But it does not work to pretend to be innocent anymore. That seduced atom has energies that seduce people, and those rarely get lost.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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