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“Whose’s war don’t matter. Whose money don’t matter either. That’s what war is.” (p. 154)

“Do a good job. A body who works baf thinks bad, I always say.” (page 108)

“Huge organizations and me don’t get along. They’re too inflexible, waste too much time, have too many stupid people.” (page 79)

“Don’t blame me. That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution,” (page 49)

"The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it." (Pg. 274)

“Aren’t you doing this, in part, to get personal revenge on society? As one of the elites, someone who thinks like an outcast.” (pg. 200)

“I wonder if what Voltaire meant wasn’t ideas as much as meditation,” Tsukuru said.
The man inclined his head a fraction. “Pain is what gives rise to meditation. It has nothing to do with age, let alone beards.” (Pg. 60)

pg. 180

“The song just didn’t do to me what it used to. Why, I can’t say. The special something I’d found ages ago in that melody was no longer there. It was still a beautiful tune, but nothing more. And I had no intention of lingering over the corpse of a beautiful song.”

Pg. 137

“If I could cry, it might make things easier. But what would I cry over? Who would I cry for? I was too self-centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.”

“Autumn finally arrrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn’t keep on living like this.”

“Often we think what we have done is good, but it may not actually be so. When we become old, we are often very proud of what we have done.“ (page 48)
“Repeating his recollections in this way, his personality will be twisted more and more, until he becomes quite a disagreeable, stubborn fellow.” (page 48)