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“However much food you ate, as long as you were alive, you would experience hunger again, and words, however you managed to capture them, would disperse again like phantoms into the void.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

“Human beings had created words to communicate with the dead, and with those yet unborn.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage

“It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”
― Donna Tartt

“Words were necessary for creation. Kishibe imagined the primordial ocean that covered the surface of the earth long ago—a soupy, swirling liquid in a state of chaos. Inside every person there was a similar ocean. Only when that ocean was struck by the lightning of words could all come into being. Love, the human heart . . . Words gave things form so they could rise out of the dark sea.”
― Shion Miura, The Great Passage