IS THERE NO WAY OUT OF THE MIND?

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

— Haruki Murakami (via irinatyt)

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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep.

It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight,’ I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

— Haruki Murakami, Sleep

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It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz

(via franflow)

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I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via floricawild)

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losed:

Brooklyn Gang 1959, by Bruce Davidson

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aseaofquotes:

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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