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“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
― Gandhi: An Autobiography
― Gandhi: An Autobiography
“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”
― Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
― Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
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For everybody enjoying fiction and non-fiction on Japan or by Japanese authors.
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Discuss any books about Japanese history here.
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