“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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