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“The earth goes around,” Kiku blurted out, “so why should I sit still?”
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
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“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
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