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“No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me lo...”
“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can live only by forgetting; but when his grief should dissolve with th...”
“When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could keep going without looking back even once. I could feel with my back how my neighborhood was rece...”
“A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!”
“She wasn't sad. Not sad, more like... empty.”
“And in the end... Not even that old familiar sensation of emptiness. Just a hint of helplessness, a frustration for a lost time from a result prematurely injured and failed.”
“the path is lost, and Ive become part of the wreckage another meaningless casualty.”
“I am so sad. I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts. I shift, restless, but it doesnt help. Its liketime. All this time in here is on me, has its hooks in me. Maybe if I sleep mor...”
“Happiness is as fragile and fleeting as a bubble soap. Water down the last dregs of happiness and turn them into bubbles to fill the void. It may nothing more than an illusion, but it was still bet...”
“I am scared of this emptiness, pull me out of my body”
“When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?”
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, strivi...”
“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.”
“I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.”
“This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.”
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting ...”
“What does it mean to be me? I don't know. Maybe that's just it. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe all I am is emptiness, is nothing.”
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”
“Nevertheless, some free time remains. Whats to be done? How do you use your time? In dedicating yourself to helping people? But basically other people dont interest you. Listening to records? That ...”
“We dont like to hurt. And there is no worse pain for fallen people than facing an emptiness we cannot fill. To enter into pain seems rather foolish when we can run from it through denial. We simply...”
