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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it's true-all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed to maintain a fenceless civilization until the seventeenth century. They're dyed-in-the-wool free. They go where they want, when they want, doing what they want. Their lives are a literal journey. Walkabout is a perfect metaphor for their lives. When the English came and built fences to pen in their cattle, the Aborigines couldn't fathom it. And, ignorant to the end of the principle at work, they were classified as dangerous and antisocial and were driven away, to the outback. So I want you to be careful. The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
* كل من يعشق يكون في بحث عن أجزائه المفقودة من نفسه. ولهذا يحزن العاشق عندما يفكر في معشوقته.تماما كعودتك الى غرفة عشت فيها ذكريات عزيزة عليك،وأم ترها منذ فترة طويله. انه مجرد شعور طبيعي.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
That backpack's like your symbol of freedom," he comments."Guess so," I say."Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.""Sometimes," I say."Sometimes," he repeats. "You know, if they had a contest for the world's shortest replies, you'd win hands down.""Perhaps.""Perhaps," Oshima says, as if fed up. "Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time.Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happenvery often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked anddefenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out tome, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water.~page 10
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
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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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most SUBLIME thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth only served one purpose: to make art possible.
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Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore
Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories.
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