But, hey, this kind of thing’s going on in libraries everywhere, you know. More or less, that is.

Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

Hermetic quote Murakami Libraries

Consider also:

  1. “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.”
  2. “the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”
  3. “to any cultured listener it seemed to have little bits of everything and everybody put in at odd moments”
  4. “He tucks proudly, or sometimes not at all, and fuck you very much if you don’t like it.”
  5. “The dense black clouds were driving restlessly athwart the sky; and when the vivid lightning gleamed forth with rapid and eccentric glare, it seemed as if the dark jaws of some hideous monster, floating high above, opened to vomit flame. And as the abrupt but furious gusts of wind swept through the forest, they raised strange echoes—as if the impervious mazes of that mighty wood were the abode of hideous fiends and evil spirits, who responded in shrieks, moans, and lamentations to the fearful din of the tempest.”