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“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
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that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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