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“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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