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Book cover for Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
He turned twenty during this time, but this special watershed—becoming an adult—meant nothing. Taking his own life seemed the most natural solution, and even now he couldn’t say why he hadn’t taken this final step.
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Douglas E. Harding
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.”
Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

Cheryl Strayed
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Richard Brautigan
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Leo Tolstoy
“And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

Richard Brautigan
“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.”
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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