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Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

by Eileen Chang

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“Civilization is communication,” the doctor said. “That which is not expressed doesn’t exist.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

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“It was a senseless, evil thing to do. Still, evil like that is everywhere in this world, mountains of it. I can't understand it, you can't understand it. But it's there, no question. You could say we're surrounded by it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

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“Each of us had, to a greater or lesser degree, resolved to live according to his or her own system. If another person's way of thinking was too different from mine, it made me mad; too close and I got sad. That's all there was to it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

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“A work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing _in_ the world, not just a text or commentary _on_ the world.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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“I took a long look at my reflection in the window. My eyes were a bit hollow with fever. I could live with that. And my jaw was dark with five o'clock (five thirty, actually) shadow. I could live with that too. The problem was that the face I saw wasn't my face at all. It was the face of the twenty-four-year-old guy you sometimes sit across from on the train. My face and soul were lifeless shells, of no significance to anyone. My soul passes someone else's on the street. Hey, it says. Hey, the other responds. Nothing more. Neither waves. Neither looks back.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

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