“A kiss, for instance, is not to be minimized, or its value judged by anyone else. I wonder do these men grade their pleasure in terms of whether their actions produce a child or not, and do they consider them more pleasant if they do. It is a question of pleasure after all, and what’s the use of debating the pleasure of an ice cream cone versus a football game — or a Beethoven quartet versus the Mona Lisa. I’ll leave that to the philosophers.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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