Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”
“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”