The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.
“Kino: It's pretty interesting, isn't it?Hermes: What is?Kino: The way that when someone expresses something, someone else always shows up to interpret it. Maybe the world is just a series of such e...”
“Whenever people see birds flying through the sky, it's said that they get the urge to go on a journey.”
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”
“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”