Agar bisa mengerti sebuah nilai, kadang-kadang kamu harus melakukan sesuatu yang buang-buang waktu. Namun, bahkan suatu tindakan yang kelihatannya sia-sia, tidak selamanya berakhir demikian.
This religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.
Someday you’ll find the right person, Mari, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less.
Virtually everything inside me had spilled out and been lost. I was completely new, but I was also completely empty. I had to fill in that blank, little by little. With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called ‘I.
The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.
Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside.
Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I’ll do some thinking. Ob – la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.
What I liked most about Miu was that she didn’t try to hide her age. According to Sumire, she must be thirty-eight or thirty-nine. And indeed she looked that age. With her slim, tight figure, a little makeup and she’d easily pass for late twenties. But she didn’t make the effort. Miu let age naturally rise to the surface, accepted it for what it was, and made her peace with it. M.
In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul.
I knew I’d be all right, I’d be safe with you there.
That’s why I go all out in whatever I do. I want to stretch myself as far as I can, to see what I’m capable of. I have no time to be bored. That’s the best way I know of keeping fear and emptiness at arm’s length.
She named a coffee shop not far from the Shinjuku Gyoen-mae Station. The name brought back memories.
For a moment an agreeable aftertaste remained, but after a few seconds this disappeared, like morning dew on a summer leaf.
If you don’t understand something, then stick with it until you do.
Unimpeded by other schemes, this hint of things to come takes time to expand in the new morning light, and we attempt to watch it unobtrusively, with deep concentration. The night has begun to open up at last. There will be time until the next darkness arrives.
Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate.
Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value.
The two of us are linked together by the heavy bonds of silence that pass through the wall separating our two worlds.
And you know what you once told me, about how people’s eyes have something honest about them when they’re watching a fire.