My mother was gentle and loving, but a little distant, as though she bore some great pain which had numbed her heart.
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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