“Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“It’s all taking the customer’s money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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