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But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

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To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impo...more

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Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that...more

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You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else...more

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But in real life things don't go smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door...more

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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to chang...more

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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

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If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

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Haida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the sam...more

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But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to ret...more

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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rai...more

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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of ev...more

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What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

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In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. E...more

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it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simpl...more