“What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”
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“Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“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
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