There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…
Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
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Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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