“Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
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“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.”
― The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising
― The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising
“This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.”
― Someone
― Someone
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