"Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him."
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"It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again."
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"[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter."
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"she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing."
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"The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest."
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"Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless."
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"I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it."
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"The world is full of ways and means to waste time."
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"Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said."
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"Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished."
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"When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say."
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"Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love."
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"I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world."
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"The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from."
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"One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange."
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"Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system."
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"Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world."
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"I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it."
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"To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful."
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"We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not."
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