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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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Haruki Murakami
“And you’re alone, but not lonely.” It was still early, and they were the only customers in the bar. Music from a jazz trio played softly in the background. “I suppose,” Tsukuru said after some hesitation.”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Douglas E. Harding
“It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything - room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snow-peaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and gained a world.”
Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

Leo Tolstoy
“Apart from this lying, or because of it, what most tormented Ivan Ilych was that no one pitied him as he wished to be pitied. At certain moments after prolonged suffering he wished most of all (though he would have been ashamed to confess it) for someone to pity him as a sick child is pitied.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

Haruki Murakami
“I have no sense of self. I have no personality, no brilliant color. I have nothing to offer. That’s always been my problem. I feel like an empty vessel. I have a shape, I guess, as a container, but there’s nothing inside.”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Kazuo Ishiguro
“If what you say is true,’ I said”
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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