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“What if he were an ordinary man who has been rightfully allotted no more than a mediocre destiny?”
― Il deserto dei Tartari
― Il deserto dei Tartari
“I realized that his death severed the one and only thread that still connected me with the bright world of daylight. It was because of the lost daylight, the lost brightness, the lost summer, that I was crying.”
― The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
― The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
“She looked at him with what remained of her love.”
― The Stronghold
― The Stronghold
“Then I noticed the pack of cigarettes in my other pocket. I took one out and started smoking. I felt like a man who settles down for a smoke after finishing a job of work. I wanted to live.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“A type of cipher seemed to operate in my general experience of life. As in a corridor of mirrors, a single image is reflected again and again to an endless depth. Things that I had seen in the past were clearly reflected on those that I encountered for the first time, and I felt that I was being led by such resemblances into the inner recesses of the corridor, some fathomless inner chamber. We do not collide with our destiny all of a sudden. The man who later in his life is to be executed is constantly, every time that he sees a telegraph pole on his way to work, every time that he passes a railway crossing, drawing an image in his mind of the execution site, and is becoming familiar with that image.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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