kotunia

“The perplexity in his mind came not from the fear that once having drawn a losing lottery ticket, he would sink into depths from which he would not be able to emerge, but rather from the unconscious working of his idle thought that whatever the outcome, it would not ultimately affect him that much. Like a person who reads a book while feeling drowsy yet who tries to catch the clear meaning of the letters without making a conscious effort to resist that drowsiness, Keitaro was worried that the egg of prompt resolution warming in his rather easygoing bosom would not hatch properly. Under the pretext that he had to free himself from his own irresolution, he tried to fan secretly the flame of his own love of curiosity.”
― Natsume Sōseki, To the Spring Equinox and Beyond

“Być może śmierć to przejście na drugi nieznany nikomu brzeg dalekiej rzeki, ale z pewnością są i tacy, którzy żyć będą nadal, choć w zmienionej postaci, w tych, których pozostawili na tym brzegu”
― Sanaka Hiiragi, Przesyłka z Nieba

“A kiss instead of a salutation, disrobing, the neon signs nullifying the effect of the extinguished lamp, the double bed with its superannauted spring squealing piteously, impatient hugs and kisses, the first cold contact of the skin of their bodies after the sweat had dried, the smell of flesh and pomade, endless groping for satisfaction filled with impatience for the same bodies, little screams belying masculine vanity, hands wet with hair oil.. Then the pitiable perspiration, the groping under pillows for cigarettes and matches, the faintly shining whites of eyes. Then the endless conversation surging as over a broken dam, and the descent to the childish play of satisfied, tests of strength in the dark night, stabs at wrestling, various other inanities....”
― Yukio Mishima

“Le spirit n'est cette puissance
Que dans la mesure qu'il contemple
le négatif face à face
(Spirit has such power
only to the extent
that it contemplates the negative face to face)”
― Jean-Luc Godard