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"This is where I’ll stop until part 2 of the Villeneuve adaptation comes out later this year—definitely looking forward to watching this not knowing anything.
What’s apparent from reading this so far is (1) the 2021 adaptation took great care condensing the movie script into something that stands unique (2) the book is so rich in lore, that it makes for a fun and intriguing page-turner. Until next time!" — Apr 02, 2023 02:31PM
"This is where I’ll stop until part 2 of the Villeneuve adaptation comes out later this year—definitely looking forward to watching this not knowing anything.
What’s apparent from reading this so far is (1) the 2021 adaptation took great care condensing the movie script into something that stands unique (2) the book is so rich in lore, that it makes for a fun and intriguing page-turner. Until next time!" — Apr 02, 2023 02:31PM
The last onlookers ranged about the schoolhouse windows lost their curiosity, the helper fainted, and Colonel Lázaro Aponte, who had seen and caused so many repressive massacres, became a vegetarian as well as a spiritualist.
“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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