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“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”

Source : "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 12, 2013.
“The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.”
“[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.”
“Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.”
“Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.”
“Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.”
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

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