“There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”
― The Hundred Secret Senses
― The Hundred Secret Senses
“I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“It was the usual noontime university scene, but as I sat watching it with renewed attention, I became aware of a certain fact. In his or her own way, each person I saw before me looked happy. Whether they really were happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon at the end of September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness that was new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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