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“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
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
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