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If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
Sometimes, when you rewatch a film after not having seen it for a long time, it makes a totally different impression on you than it did the first time you saw it. Of course, the movie hasn’t changed; it’s you who has changed, and seeing the same film again makes that impossible to forget.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
My whole life will be summed up in those moments that I won’t be around to see —the time after I’m dead.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
However, when you think about it, a human being can never really grieve their own death. Death is always something that happens to other people around them.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
A lot of people buy into the slogan “Live life like there’s no tomorrow.” But I tend to disagree. Once you become aware of your impending death, you have to make a compromise in accepting the loss of the life you wish you could have led and the reality of your imminent death. Sure, there will always be regrets and broken dreams, but you have to go
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People are fickle that way. Something they once valued becomes meaningless almost overnight. Even the most treasured presents, letters, and memories are forgotten about, eventually becoming useless odds and ends.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed? It is all those differences, however minuscule, that make up my existence.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They are your gifts. As long as you have these things, you’ll find happiness, and you’ll make the people around you happy.
Genki Kawamura • If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel
suppose you could say that my life is like that photograph. A movie that shows my whole life would include both comedy and tragedy. All the joy, anger, and sorrow I’ve been through, the result of which would be nothing more than a blank screen. There’s nothing there, nothing left. Only an empty space. Sometimes, when you rewatch a film after not
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