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“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima”

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Book:Kafka on the Shore
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“I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.' 'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.”

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Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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“Este es todavía mi corazón, por muy hueco que esté. Si bien de forma tenue, en él aún permanece el calor humano de la gente. Algunos recuerdos personales esperan calladamente a que la marea suba, como algas enredadas en una estaca clavada en la orilla. Si pudiesen cortar, de algunos pensamientos manaría sangre roja. Todavía me puedo permitir que mi corazón vague errante hacia algún lugar imposible.”

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Book:Hombres sin mujeres
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“Aber in unserem Kopf – oder vielleicht sogar der Kopf selbst – ist ein kleines Zimmer, in dem diese Dinge als Erinnerungen aufbewahrt bleiben. Ein Zimmer wie unsere Bibliothek. Und um über unseren genauen geistigen Zustand auf dem Laufenden zu sein, müssen wir die Karteikarten in diesem Zimmer ständig ergänzen. Wir müssen reinigen, lüften und das Blumenwasser wechseln. Anders ausgedrückt, man lebt auf Ewigkeit in seiner eigenen Bibliothek.”

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“As is true of most people, I imagine, I had experienced a number of turning points in my life, where I could go either left or right. And each time I chose one, right or left. (There were times when there was a clear-cut reason, but most of the time there wasn't. And it wasn't always like I was making a choice, but more like the choice itself chose me.) And now here I was, a first person singular. If I'd chosen a different direction, most likely I wouldn't be here. But still — who is that in the mirror.”

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Book:First Person Singular: Stories
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“Le persone che si lasciano incantare, che seguono in massa qualcuno che non produce niente, non capisce niente, ma parla bene in maniera persuasiva. A queste persone non passa neanche per l’anticamera del cervello che potrebbero sbagliarsi. Non riescono neanche a immaginare che possono ferire qualcuno irreparabilmente, senza motivo. Non si assumono la minima responsabilità degli effetti della loro condotta. Sono loro, quelli di cui ho paura. Sono loro quelli che vedo in sogno. Nel sogno tutto tace, e mi appaiono delle persone senza volto. Il silenzio si infiltra ovunque come acqua fredda, e in quel silenzio, tutto si scioglie.”

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Book:The Elephant Vanishes
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“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.”

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Book:After Dark
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“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.” “McLuhanesque?” “Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,” Ayumi protested. “McLuhan was ahead of his time. He was so popular for a while that people tend not to take him seriously, but what he had to say was right.” “In other words, the package itself is the contents. Is that it?” “Exactly. The characteristics of the package determine the nature of the contents, not the other way around.”

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Book:1Q84
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“oğunlukla dürüst bir insanımdır. Anladığım zaman anladım, anlamadığım zaman da net olarak anlamadım derim. İkircikli ifadeler kullanmam. Sorunların büyük kısmının ikircikli ifadeler yüzünden çıktığına inanırım. İnsanların çoğunun ikircikli ifadeler kullanmasını, onların aslında içten içe, bilinçsizce de olsa, sorun çıkmasını arzu etmelerine bağlarım. Başka türlü düşünebilmem mümkün değil.”

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Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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“Quizá tampoco pueda decirse que soy un tipo corriente, pero raro no soy. Soy una persona extremadamente cabal, a mi manera. Muy directa. Directa como una flecha. Soy yo mismo de un modo sumamente natural e inevitable. Dado que es un hecho evidente, no me importa demasiado lo que los demás piensen de mí. La manera en que los demás me ven no me atañe. Más bien, eso es algo que sólo les atañe a ellos”

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Book:Dance Dance Dance
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