“I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook h...”
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The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and placed No. 2 in Amazon.com's top books of the year.
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Haruki Murakami
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“I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook h...”
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“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
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“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes...”
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“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
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“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”
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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
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“In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.”
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“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
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“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
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“But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.”
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“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
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“I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.”
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“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't lov...”
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“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a sm...”
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“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”
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“If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him strai...”
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“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”
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“Every day time moves forward one day’s worth. And what has gone forward can’t go back to where it came from.”
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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 might find that cool.” “McLuhanesque?”...”
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“Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.”
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