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  1. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person."
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  2. Ryū Murakami _ Almost Transparent Blue

    The fragment of glass with the blood on its edge, as it soaked up the dawn air, was almost transparent.It was a boundless blue, almost transparent. I stood up, and as I walked toward my own apartment, I thought, I want to become like this glass. And then I want to reflect this smooth white curving myself. I want to show other people these splendid curves reflected in me.
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  3. Ryū Murakami _ Almost Transparent Blue

    Hey, take a good look, isn't the world still under your feet? I'm on this ground, and on this same ground are trees and grass and ants carrying sand to their nests, little girls chasing rolling balls, and puppies running.This ground runs under countless houses and mountains and rivers and seas, under everywhere. And I'm on it.Don't be scared, I'd told myself, the world is still under me.
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  4. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    What a weird place this was, I thought. It felt completely isolated and, partly because of the cold, like being on another planet. I wondered if there were planets where it's okay to murder people. I decided there must be, reminding myself that in war, after all, killers are heroes.
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  5. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    That was with me for years-feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it-slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone. . . .
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  6. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    Basically people who love horror movies are people with boring lives. They want to be stimulated, and they need to reassure themselves, because when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films-they act as shock absorbers-and if they disappeared altogether it would mean losing one of the few ways we have to ease the anxiety of the imagination. And I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers and mass murderers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news, right?
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  7. Ryū Murakami _ Almost Transparent Blue

    My play over, watching the sun go down, I'd frown and blow on the wound, and then I felt a sense of peace, as if I and the gray evening landscape were confiding in each other. Just the opposite from heroin or melting together in a woman's juices, the pain made me stand out from my surroundings, the pain made me feel as if I were shining. And I thought this shining self could get along well with the lovely orange light of the setting sun.
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  8. Ryū Murakami _ Almost Transparent Blue

    I remembered a friend who'd died of a bad liver, and what he'd always said.Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like I'm myself again. It's hard to take, sure, but I feel sort of peaceful. Because it's always hurt ever since I was born.
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  9. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them. Sometimes they remind me of the Invisible Man, but I've never quite understood why they end up that way.
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  10. Ryū Murakami _ Audition

    At sixteen, the caption read, this boy has never been hugged. Aoyama gazed for sometime at the kid's face. It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
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  11. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    Ponekad je mnogo teže izaći na kraj s glupošću nego sa svesnim zlom.
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  12. Ryū Murakami _ In the Miso Soup

    American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.
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