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And what if it wasn’t Thomas I had been missing all this time? What if it had been the act of loving—the moving through life while loving, the way of seeing myself while loving, the splendid shapes love makes of the world, the way it takes
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“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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