The Gun Quotes

“wanted to relish my time here, while it lasted. It may have been a small thing, within the framework of life that surrounded me, but meanwhile, I decided to spend the rest of my days living.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Gun

“if that guy dies, or doesn’t die—what does it matter? None of it is a big deal. None of it, at all. What matters doesn’t exist.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Gun

“In order to change the direction of my thinking, I tried taking the opposite position: why shouldn't I shoot someone? It was difficult to come up with an answer. It was a well-known fact that the world was full of people who didn't deserve to live, myself included, and the existence of the death penalty was societally accepted - whatever that tells you about society. And, after all, the fact that guns existed was also accepted as a matter of course. Conveniently, there was a person living in the apartment next door to me who would be better off dead. At that moment, it felt as if my thoughts had taken on a concrete movement of their own. Naturally, I would lose my freedom if I were caught, but I just needed to figure out how not to get arrested.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Gun