“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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