

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore

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