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Many readers have asked me if I wrote the two stories separately and then put them together later on, but that’s not how I did it. I wrote them in the same order as they appear in the novel, alternating one with the other. Doing this
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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
“In the end, you stop understanding everything. It’s like spinning a top that you’ve painted all different colors. The faster the top spins, the less you can distinguish one color from another, until they all blend together. You end up with chaos.”
― End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation
― End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“The conduct of life was always the same: building it up took lots of time, but destroying it could be accomplished in an instant.”
― End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation
― End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A New Translation
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