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A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

by Haruki Murakami

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May 08, 2016 05:40AM

Ilona’s Quotes

“Let silence take you to the core of life.”
― Rumi

tags: life, silence

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“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

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“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

tags: silence, solitude, speech

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“I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.”
― Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel

tags: selective-mutism, silence, social-anxiety, words

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“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: invisibility, seclusion, silence, solitude

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