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Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”
Instead of racing straight through, I reread parts I think are most important till I understand them, to get something tangible out of them. All sorts of knowledge seeps, bit by bit, into my brain.
Because reality’s just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you’ll see what I mean.”
Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I’m as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination.
no matter who or what you’re dealing with, people build up meaning between themselves and the things around them. The important thing is whether this comes about naturally or not. Being bright has nothing to do with it.
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.
“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”
“What is God?” The question threw Hoshino for a moment. Colonel Sanders pressed him further. “What does God look like, and what does He do?” “Don’t ask me. God’s God. He’s everywhere, watching what we do, judging whether it’s good or bad.” “Sounds like a soccer referee.” “Sort of, I guess.”
Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark bottom of a volcanic lake.
His first-ever visit to a library had made him painfully aware of how little he knew. The amount of things he didn’t know about the world was infinite. The infinite, by definition, has no limits, and thinking about it gave him a mild migraine.
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop.
“I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. Where were you born?”
