Katarzyna

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

“It is the age of numbers, isn't it? So we are numbers and the Elbees are words. We are mathemathics and they are poetry. We are winning and they are losing; and so of course they're afraid of us, it's like a struggle inside human nature itself, between what's mechanical and utilitarian in us and the part that loves and dreams. We all fear that the cold machine-like thing in human nature will destroy our magic and song.”
― Salman Rushdie, Fury

“I want to live so that everything around me remains clean. I want to think about other people more. Pushing people out of the way and trying to climb over their heads are no good. Chasing nothing but money – that's no good eiher, like knocking your brains out trying to be a little more famous, a little more powerful. To hear the birds song and to say "Ah, they're singing!" To see the flowers and to say "Ah they're blooming!" That,s the way to live.”
― Yasushi Inoue

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings”
― Daisaku Ikeda, On the Japanese Classics: Conversations and Appreciations