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Haruki Murakami,
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And I tried to imagine how I would feel if Rosa and I, a long time from now, long after we’d found our different homes, saw each other again by chance on a street. Would I then feel, as Manager had put it, pain alongside my happiness?
Kazuo Ishiguro • Klara and the Sun: A novel
Another historic, but less well-known area is the Yanaka district just north of Ueno Park. The old shitamachi atmosphere from Tokyo of yesteryear still survives here; the streets are full of rustic charm, busy locals and a whole variety of shops and trades. There are now very few places in Tokyo quite like it, and its well off the usual tourist
... See moreTom Fay • Must-See Japan (2020 Edition): The complete insider's guide to seeing the best of Japan in one trip
“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
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
people who think of others as enemies have not attained self-acceptance and do not have enough confidence in others.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
If I change, the world will change. No one else will change the world for me . . .
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Cloth has traditionally been inseparable from life itself. Silk is drawn from the cocoons of silkworms fed on mulberry leaves, cotton is spun from the bolls of the cotton plant. Hemp fabric is produced from plant stems, basho cloth from leaf sheaths, and shinafu from tree bark, which passes through a series of processes to become yarn. Yarns are
... See moreCan you move forward in the face of uncertainty? Can you co-exist with confusion and not-knowing and take the next step? Small steps are an elegant approach to indecision. That’s because each of those small steps sends ripples out into the world. Your situation is never the same from day to day, because the world is in a dynamic state of flux.