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Andrei Tarkovsky
“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

Haruki Murakami
“You enjoy solitude?" she asked, leaning her cheek on her hand. "Traveling alone, eating alone, sitting off by yourself in lecture halls..."

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

The tip of one earpiece in her mouth, sunglasses dangling down, she mumbled, "'Nobody likes being alone. I just hate to be disappointed.' You can use that line if you ever write your autobiography."

"Thanks," I said.

"Do you like green?"

"Why do you ask?"

"You're wearing a green polo shirt."

"Not especially. I'll wear anything."

"'Not especially. I'll wear anything.' I love the way you talk. Like spreading plaster nice and smooth. Has anybody ever told you that?"

"Nobody," I said.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Yukio Mishima
“I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.”
Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Eileen Chang
“Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.”
Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City

Yukio Mishima
“For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.”
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

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