“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
― The Insufferable Gaucho
― The Insufferable Gaucho
“The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”
― The Sorrows of an American
― The Sorrows of an American
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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