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Life Ceremony

Book by Sayaka Murata · 7 quotes · Absurdism, Foreign, Japanese Literature

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“This is exactly what I wanted to see today. Everyone thinks the food other people eat is disgusting, and that's the way it should be... How about a toast? To all our uniquely disgusting foods!”

Food Individualism

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“Sexual orientation is becoming much more diverse," she went on. "Is a man attracted to young girls going to get an erection with his thirty-five-year-old wife? Can a woman who only gets aroused by two-dimensional men have sex with a living three-dimensional man without pain?”

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“Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement.”

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“Everyone always says that things like common sense or instinct or morals are carved in stone. But that’s not true- actually, they’re always changing.”

Japanese Literature Absurdism Foreign

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“We humans were only here for a moment, the time it takes to blink in the flow of time experienced by the big lump we call Earth. In that enormously long moment, we continued to evolve and transform. I was here in a momentary scene of the never-ending kaleidoscope”

Japanese Literature Absurdism Foreign

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“We may be headed in a dangerous direction, but the vague conclusion seemed to be that we wouldn’t know unless we tried”

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“Our pleasure is ours, your pleasure is yours, we discover our own pleasure, and we don’t betray our own pleasure, we don’t betray our own bodies”

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