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Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky. Now and then, a shooting star w...more

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No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks tot...more

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Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds ...more

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I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I wou...more

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But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's ...more

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Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people...more

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It's not me but the world that's deranged.

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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

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You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

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The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

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Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptio...more

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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind ...more

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I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white tray...more

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Mr. Nakata, this world is a terribly violent place. And nobody can escape the violence. Please keep that in mind. You can't be too cautious. The same ...more

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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.