Kafka on the Shore

“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. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making ne

Nakata shook his head. “That’s a tough one. Nakata still doesn’t understand. The only thing I understand is the present.”

Taking crazy things seriously is – a serious waste of time.” “A very wise conclusion. There’s that saying, ‘Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.’” “I like that.”

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.’”

stuffed some emergency medical kit

She knows all kinds of things you’re clueless about, she’s experienced a range of emotions you’ve never felt. The longer people live, the more they learn to distinguish what’s important from what’s not.

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “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. A room like the stacks

Hoshino was drawn back to his childhood. He used to go to the river every day to catch fish. Nothing to worry about back then, he reminisced. Just live each day as it came. As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing. Weird … People are born in order to

François Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows