“Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'
'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“Number two becoming number one, that's how life goes. Always demanding the best, that's a strange way of living.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
“Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture — these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, quote from Evil and the Mask
Fuminori Nakamura
Born place: in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Born date September 2, 1977
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“She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them.
She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”
― E. Lockhart, quote from We Were Liars
“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac. A dog or rabbit doesn't behave like that. Take birds -- in a lean season they cut down on the eggs, or they won't mate at all. They put their energy into staying alive themselves until times get better. But human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else, some new version of themselves, and live on forever.
As a species were doomed by hope, then?
You could call it hope. That, or desperation.
But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy.
Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from Oryx and Crake
“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19”
― quote from The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, quote from The Shell Seekers
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― Italo Calvino, quote from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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