“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
― Kafka on the Shore
In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“Sulla via del ritorno la osservavo, di nuovo in cammino davanti a me. Frenavo le gambe, accordando l'andatura alla sua. Le erbacce della scarpata la graffiavano e non le sentiva. A momenti deviava invece verso la linea di mezzeria, senza accorgersi del pericolo. Un clacson l'ha fatta trasalire, prima che io avessi il tempo di correggere la sua traiettoria. La mia pena si é di colpo cambiata in rabbia, mi ha incendiato dentro. Eccola lí, la madre dolorosa di quello scapestrato. Era tutta per lui, chiuso tra le tavole di legno. Non aveva niente per me, che sopravvivevo. Di certo quando mi aveva data, creatura di pochi mesi, non si era ridotta cosí. L'ho raggiunta e superata, ho continuato senza voltarmi indietro a guardare se si salvava dalle macchine. Se qualcuno doveva proteggerla, non ero io.”
― L'Arminuta
― L'Arminuta
“We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
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