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“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I said.
“A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. “What’s that all about? A spring bear.”
“You’re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, “Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?’ So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other’s arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?”
“Yeah. Really nice.”
“That’s how much I like you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Ti Lasci Contemplare.
Come se fosse la prima volta, come se mi volessi dimostrare che sei una meraviglia. Perché ami dipingere e il pennello è la tua voce. Mi ripeti che vuoi creare dipinti stupendi, così come ti ha insegnato il tuo scrittore preferito. "La vità imita l'arte più di quanto l'arte non imiti la vita", mi dici. Ma sei tu il mio capolavoro. Così stupenda nella tue mille contraddizioni.”
― Francesco Falconi, Gli anni incompiuti

“I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy