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Sputnik Sweetheart

Book by Haruki Murakami · 44 quotes · Haruki Murakami, Love, Japanese Literature

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“I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. This current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”

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“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us - that's snatched right out of our hands - even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of insurmountable emptiness... Maybe, in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single, overlapping figure. And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them. Knowing all the while that their lives are fleeting.”

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“Человек должен хоть раз в жизни оказаться в кромешной глуши, чтобы физически испытать одиночество, пусть даже задыхаясь при этом от скуки. Почувствовать, как это — зависеть исключительно от себя самого, и в конце концов познать свою суть и обрести силу, ранее неведомую”

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“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”

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“どうしてみんなこれほどまで孤独にならなくてはならにのだろう、僕はそう思った。どうしてそんなに孤独になる必要があるのだ。これだけ多くの人々がこの世界に生きていて、それぞれに他者の中に何かを求めあっていて、なのになぜ我々はここまで孤絶しなくてはならないのだ。何のために？この惑星は人々の寂寥を滋養として回転を続けているのか。 ¿Por qué nos sentimos tan solos? ¿Qué necesidad hay? ¿Por qué y para qué aislarnos del resto de la gente si somos tantos los que vivimos en este mundo y cada uno de nosotros busca y espera algo de los demás? ¿Acaso este planeta gira únicamente para nutrirse de la desolación de las personas?”

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“「韓国では猫を食べるっていう話を聞いたけれど、本当？」 「私もその話を聞いたことはある。でも私のまわりには、実際に食べた人はいないわね。」 —He oído que en Corea se comen a los gatos. ¿Es verdad? —Yo también he oído esa historia, pero la verdad es que a mi alrededor no había una sola persona que los hubiese comido.”

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“私には同性愛の経験はなかったし、自分にそういう傾向があると考えたこともなかった。でももしすみれが真剣に求めているのなら、私はそれにこたえてもかまわないと思ったのよ。 Nunca tuve una experiencia homosexual, y jamás pensé que tenía esa tendencia. Pero si eso era lo que Sumire estaba buscando, no me importaba corresponderle.”

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“この女性はすみれを愛している。しかし性欲を感じることはできない。すみれはこの女性を愛し、しかも性欲を感じている。僕はすみれを愛し、性欲を感じている。すみれは僕を好きではあるけれど、愛してはいないし、性欲を感じることもせきない。 Esta mujer amaba a Sumire, pero no sentía ningún deseo sexual por ella. Sumire, en cambio, amaba a esta mujer y la deseaba sexualmente. En cuanto a mí, yo amaba a Sumire y la deseaba, y sé que ella me quería mucho, pero no me amaba ni me correspondía sexualmente.”

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“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”

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“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing”

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“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.”

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“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. The tornado’s intensity doesn’t abate for a second as it blasts across the ocean, laying waste to Angkor Wat, incinerating an Indian jungle, tigers and everything, transforming itself into a Persian desert sandstorm, burying an exotic fortress city under a sea of sand. In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost.”

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“So ist das Leben. Wie schwer und tödlich unser Verlust auch sein mag, wie wichtig auch immer das, dessen wir beraubt wurden: wir leben einfach weiter. Selbst wenn nur noch die äußerste Schicht unserer Haut die gleiche geblieben ist und wir zu völlig anderen Menschen geworden sind, strecken wir die Hände nach der uns zugemessenen Zeit aus, holen sie ein und bringen sie schließlich hinter uns. Sooft ich darüber nachdenke, wie wir unermüdlich und meist ohne besonderes Geschick unsere alltäglichen Verrichtungen wiederholen, überkommt mich das Gefühl einer entsetzlichen Leere.”

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“Le persone, se ne hanno l'occasione, parlano di se usando espressioni di una franchezza sorprendente, del tipo: "Io sono talmente sincero e aperto da rendermi ridicolo", "Io sono troppo sensibile per trovarmi bene in un mondo come questo", "Io sono bravo a leggere nel cuore degli uomini". Ma mi è capitato molte volte di vedere persone "troppo sensibili" ferire gli altri senza alcuna necessità. E ho visto persone anche "sincere e aperte" usare la logica per imporre i propri interessi, senza neanche esserne consapevoli. Ho visto infine persone "brave a leggere nel cuore degli uomini" lasciarsi ingannare senza sforzo da adulatori visibilmente insinceri. A questo punto mi sembra naturale chiedersi che cosa ognuno di noi alla fin fine conosca di se stesso.”

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“Bir şekilde her birimiz hayatımıza devam ediyoruz, diye düşündüm. Ne kadar büyük ve ciddi bir kayıp yaşasak da, ne denli önemli bir şey elimizden alınmış olsa da ya da sadece üzerimizdeki deri aynı kalıp kendimiz tamamıyla farklı bir insana dönüşmüş olsak da, sessizce yaşamımızı sürdürüyoruz. Bizim için belirlenmiş zamanın sonuna doğru gittikçe yaklaşıyor, ardımızda bıraktığımız zaman dilimi uzaklaşıp kaybolurken ona veda ediyoruz. Gündelik hayatın sonu gelmez işini gücünü tekrar tekrar -bazı durumlarda büyük bir beceriyle- yaparak. Böyle düşününce büyük bir boşluk duygusuna kapıldım.”

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