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“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust ones hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.”
“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, p...”
“Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her woundsstaying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.”
“As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer's sense of 'I want to be another ...”
“Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.”
“Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and b...”
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.”
“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 places. A good may be transformed into an evil i...”
“The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let's leave doubt for tomorrow," Komatsu said. "That is the point.”
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”
“Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge, Aomame said.Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empires budget deficits....”
“It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.”
“I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way t...”
“You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.”
“Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately? The moon did not answer. Do you have any friends? she asked. The moon did not answer. Dont you ...”
“The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained sil...”
“There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface o...”
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the...”
“Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically and effectively solve mathematical problems while simultaneo...”
