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Tweede keer dat ik dit boek lees, and I still love it.Ik krijg maar niet genoeg van deze wereld en zal zeker ook de andere boeken lezen. Het voelt enorm vertrouwd en rustgevend hoe dit verhaal je wordt voorgelezen. Het lijkt of Tolkien naast je zit e ...more "
“Just remember, life is a box of cookies. You know how they’ve got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don’t like others? And you eat up all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don’t like so much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. ‘Now i just have to polish these off, and everything’ll be O.K.’ Life is a box of cookies.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.”
― An Artist of the Floating World
― An Artist of the Floating World
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?”
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“That's all there is to it. We look different, so we don't understand each other's inner thoughts, but we cherish each other in our own way. I respect you.”
― The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
― The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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