“A person's life may be a lonely thing by nature, but it is not isolated. To that life other lives are linked.”
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“I am endowed with the capacity to believe. I believe in all honesty that something will appear to guide me through the darkest and narrowest tunnel, or across the most desolate plain.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“I have the impression that elsewhere we may all have lived totally other lives, and that somehow we have forgotten that time. Have you ever felt that way?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Everything has a bright side,” he said. “The top of even the blackest, thickest cloud shines like silver.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“. . . 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, in fact, 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. —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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