“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
― A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
― A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
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“Because survival is insufficient.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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