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The enormity and effort of just . . . being alive during this meat grinder era of history was all around her, waiting to welcome her back to all its strain and stress and fear.
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
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“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
“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
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