“The world follows its own course,” he said. “Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path.”

Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

Consider also:

  1. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
  2. “War had been declared on Christmas and the insurgents were winning.”
  3. “Knowing who you are—and who you are not—is essential. But it is only a starting point. All the talent, motivation, and hard work in the world will not be valued or remembered if it does not help another human being.”
  4. You and I have both known him, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s an experience we shan’t ever forget. And even when he and I met in the middle of China, with his mind a blank and his past a mystery, there was still that queer core of attractiveness in him.
  5. “Any one who has any experience of any mystical state of the soul knows how there float up in the mind profound symbols, whose meaning, if indeed they do not delude one into the dream that they are meaningless, one does not perhaps understand for years.”