• I Lost My Self in Japan •

"No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider."

Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

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"The Rose” symbolizes love, as love is essential to our songs. "

Kamijo - Versailles

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"He says: “it’s all dark at the foot of the lighthouse.” If your lighthouse lights too a single zone, the base will be utter darkness. Why not try to illuminate that area?"

Sakamichi No Apollo - Kaoru Nishimi- Ep. 8

— 11 mesi fa con 8 note

#sakamichi no apollo #Kids on the Slope #anime #quote #manga #坂道のアポロン #Kaoru Nishimi

誰しもが幸福とばかりに　手を伸ばし闇に潜む鬼となる

Everyone want to reach out their hand and grab happiness.
But they just end up becoming the monster that lies deep in darkness..

Dir en Grey, VINUSHKA

— 11 mesi fa con 107 note

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"All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world."

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

— 11 mesi fa con 23 note

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"It happened in an instant. I didn’t realize what had just happened … but when you fall in love do not need a reason or a particular moment."

Sakamichi no Apollon - Kaoru Nishimi (Ep. 2)

— 1 anno fa con 6 note

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"Japan is emerging from the sea. The sea has rejected as a shell of nacre. The sea retains the right to destroy it and take it back."

Jean Cocteau, Il mio primo viaggio, 1937

— 1 anno fa con 4 note

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"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it"

Dogen (Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher)

— 1 anno fa con 15 note

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"A shower gives his teachings. If the rain surprises half way, and walk faster to find a shelter, in passing under the eaves or in the bare spots will get wet anyway. But if you admit from the outset the possibility of getting wet, you shall not worth while spraying the same."

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Il codice segreto dei samurai, 2010

— 1 anno fa con 3 note

#Yamamoto Tsunetomo #japan #japanese #quote #samurai #japanese authors #samurai code

"I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."

Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

— 1 anno fa con 31 note

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