“Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one day, something inside you dies. Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought, begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die. That's hysteria siberiana.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
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― 1Q84
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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