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“There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. OK, so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. (...) So that's when it hit me. These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hands up their skirts.(...) They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy new names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh! (...) They're scared to death somebody's gonna find out they don't know something. They all read the same books and they all spout the same slogans, and they love listening to John Coltrane and seeing Pasolini movies. You call that 'revolution'? (...) Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't some thing that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Weltinnenraum,” “world-inner-space”. It is most often used to speak that essential space within the heart of a human being.”
― Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
― Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“You don't get it, do you? Person A understands Person B because the
time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be
understood by Person A. (...) it's not a mistake, most people would call
that love, if you think you want to understand me.”
― Norwegian Wood
time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be
understood by Person A. (...) it's not a mistake, most people would call
that love, if you think you want to understand me.”
― Norwegian Wood
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