February 2012
14 posts
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
– Andy Warhol (via misswallflower)
January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
17 posts
“I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun. I am the mist of...”
– Rumi
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never...”
– Haruki Murakami (via weepling)
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut)
“Somewhere weakness is our strength.”
– “Let The Flames Begin” by Paramore | via lyric-oneliners (via quote-book)
“You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in...”
– Mitch Albom (via julie911)
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via imfantasyparade)
“You’re going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul.”
– Christina Perri (via laceofpearls)
November 2011
35 posts
“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
“Sometimes fate is like a small sand-storm that keeps changing directions. You change direction, but the sand-storm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before death. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is to...
“Nakata’s empty inside… Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That’s what scares me the most” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“What was I hoping to gain from this?…Was I trying to confirm the ties that make it possible for me to exist here and now. Was I hoping to be woven into some new plot, to be given some new and better defined role to play? No, he thought, that’s not it. What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and...
“It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“あらゆるものは通りすぎる。それは誰にも捉えることはできない。”
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“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this...
Well, look at it another way: why shouldn’t there be cats in a zoo?” I said. “They’re animals, too, right?” “Cats and dogs are your run-of-the-mill-type animals. Nobody’s going to pay money to see them,” he said. “Just look around you-they’re everywhere. Same thing with people.”
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“Your problem is that your shadow is a bit - how should I put it? Faint. I thought this the first time I laid eyes on you, that the shadow you cast on the ground is only half as dark as that of ordinary people… What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“You know what I should do?” Hoshino asked excited. “Of course,” the cat said. “What’d I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.” ― Haruki Murakami
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