Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Happy New Year 2020.
A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.
– Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark
The sad truth is that certain types of things can’t go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can’t go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that’s how it will stay forever.
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Always look towards the future and don’t dwell on the past.
Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday.
Euripides.
Merry Xmas, stay healthy and spend some enjoyable and high quality time with people You love,
John S.
