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“Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.”
― Welcome to the N.H.K.
― Welcome to the N.H.K.
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.
As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.
A thicket of summer grass
Is all that remains
Of the dreams and ambitions
Of ancient warriors.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
A thicket of summer grass
Is all that remains
Of the dreams and ambitions
Of ancient warriors.”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
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