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“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”
― After Dark
― After Dark
“How little we know the ones we love. How little we know of anyone, in the end.”
― Autobiography of Us
― Autobiography of Us
“We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.”
― Autobiography of Us
― Autobiography of Us
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.”
― After Dark
― After Dark
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