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"What I feared most was not God but those who believed in Her to excess. The stupidity of the pious, whose judgement could never be compared with those of the God--God forbid--they adored with all their heart: This was the second thing that scared me."

“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.”