Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music.
I have no physical symptoms, but psychologically there’s this burden. I’ve got to get rid of it somehow. Of course, when I first went back to work I was scared the same thing might happen again. It takes positive thinking to overcome fear, otherwise you’ll carry around this victim mentality forever.
She picked up the ballpoint pen lying on the table, and played with it for a few seconds, but then she looked at the clock again. It had done its job: in the five minutes since her last look, it had advanced five minutes’ worth.
Aomame’s family – as far as Ushikawa could see it, that is – were narrow-minded in their thinking, narrow-minded in the way they lived. They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.
Now I don’t know if you realize it, but the film industry’s a small world. It’s like living in a tenement at one end of a back alley. Not only do you see everybody’s dirty laundry, but once rumors start, you can’t stop ’em.
And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there, enclosed in the car’s restricted space like an imaginary miniature cloud, giving Aomame a strangely unsettled feeling.
Even if things were the same, people’s perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter.
Los conocimientos importantes conllevan importantes responsabilidades.
Todo es incierto y completamente ambiguo.
Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.
But people need to cling to something,” Oshima says. “They have to. You’re doing the same, even though you don’t realize it. It’s like Goethe said: Everything’s a metaphor.
I’m forever realizing things too late.
Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.
Things are so convenient for us these days, our perceptions are probably that much duller. Even if its the same moon hanging in the sky, we may be looking at something quite different. Four hundred years ago, we might have had richer spirits that were closer to nature.
This is pretty obvious, but until things happen, they haven’t happened. And often things aren’t what they seem.
A cell is just a room if you don’t lock the door.
But Nakata wasn’t afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already.
Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.
To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.
Aren’t you a little young to be, like, the voice of wisdom or something?