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“What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.”
― Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)

tags: alone, conversation, friendship, loneliness

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“My engineer father once told me that marriage and who you fall in love with are largely a matter of chance, chemicals, and how far you’re willing to drive.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

tags: fiction, on-fiction, reading

316 likes

“Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)”
― Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes

tags: the-flaw-in-paganism

320 likes

“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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