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I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e s...more

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Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo...more

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Writing a novel is like having a dream.

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no po...more

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I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I wou...more

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You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You ...more

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Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure feelings, and I understand perfectly we...more

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading p...more

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The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a r...more

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Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains ...more

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Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, we...more

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He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the d...more

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Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

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Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, ‘cause whe...more