"That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way."
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"She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me."
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"And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind."
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"I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it."
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"All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well."
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"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
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"But the silence spoke volumes."
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"My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings."
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"Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved."
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"But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution."
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"No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others."
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"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."
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"Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?"
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"If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language."
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"At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken."
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"I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun."
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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. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?"
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"The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."
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"Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert."
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"I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back."
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