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“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“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
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Elisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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