“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“A strange night, he thought. Somewhere now there is shooting and men are being hunted and imprisoned and tortured and murdered, some corner of a peaceful world is being trampled upon, and one knows it, helplessly, and life buzzes on in the bright bistros of the city, no one cares, and people go calmly to sleep, and I am sitting here with a woman between pale chrysanthemums and a bottle of calvados, and the shadow of love rises, trembling, lonesome, strange and sad, it too an exile from the safe gardens of the past, shy and wild and quick as if it had no right”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
Leah’s 2024 Year in Books
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