Chris

“In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and for all. Human beings were merely allotted one part of nature's various attributes and, by an effective method of substitution, they diffused that part and made it multiply.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“Hardly anything in this life is settled. Things that happen once will go on happening. But they come back in different guises, and that's what fools us.”
― Natsume Soseki

“- He was our commander not because someone appointed him but because we picked him to be our commander. He was a brave man, tall, six feet eight perhaps, and strong. He wasn’t afraid of anything. We looked up to him, all of us. And when I saw him lying there, without legs, crippled and totally helpless … I felt terrible.
- Did it perhaps occur to you to quit at that moment?
- No, it didn’t, once you’re inside you cant get out, you cant quit”
― Slavenka Drakulić, The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War