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What we shared was no more than a fragment of a time long dead. Yet memories remained, warm memories that remained with me like lights from the past. And I would carry those lights in the brief interval before death grabbed me and tossed me
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“But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“很多人錯把婚禮與婚姻解為相近詞,以為自己嚮往的是婚姻,實則是婚禮。婚禮是門闔上之前,是光天化日下相互承諾,是愛;婚姻是門闔上之後,是密室裡承諾的總檢討,是恆久忍耐又有恩慈。”
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― 可是我偏偏不喜歡
“不想結婚的人們,應值得一次鼓勵,他們對自己誠實,誠實地說,目前並無把握負擔誰的逆境、貧窮、疾病與哀愁。在天災滿布的現世中,他們調節著人禍的比例。”
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Saramago
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The Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago is one of the greatest living authors today. His style is authentic (long sentences and paragraphs, the exclusion ...more
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