No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.
Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died long ago. Even...
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter...
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.
Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas
Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit...
Like my hairstyle? she asked.It's great.How great?Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world.
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
Let’s say you are an empty vessel. So what? What’s wrong with that? Eri said. You’re still a wonderful, attractive vessel. And really, does anybody know who they are? So why not be a completely beauti...
Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
Le travail ne représentait qu'ennui pour moi, je détestais aller au bureau. Je me sentais vraiment oppressé. J'avais l'impression que mon moi véritable se rétrécissait de plus en plus, et que j'allais...
Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. Th...
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small black spider, patiently waiting for its small prey to come along. Not that the spider...
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, t...
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in...