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Cody
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Our awareness of the multiple interconnections among people in different parts of the world continues to expand, but our sense of the connections among different human generations has become increasingly impoverished, as compared, say, with
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“Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.”
― 宝石の国 6 [Houseki no Kuni 6]
― 宝石の国 6 [Houseki no Kuni 6]
“I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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