“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“There is nowhere morning does not go.”
― Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
― Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
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