adj. extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
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The express train traced a huge arc along the ocean shore beneath the towering mountains, until it reached a point along the coast where the two moons were visible, hanging side by side in the sky above the quiet sea. They stood out sharply—the big, yellow moon and the small, green one—vivid in outline but their distance impossible to grasp. In their light, the ocean’s tiny ripples shone mysteriously like scattered shards of glass. As the train continued around the curve, the two moons moved slowly across the window, leaving those delicate shards behind, like wordless hints, until they disappeared from view.

— 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Why couldn’t people’s insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

— Something Like Summer by Jay Bell Source: larmoyante lemniscateslemniscates
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

— The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Source: tenderskin Haruki Murakamiharukimurakami
The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.

— Rumi Source: misswallflower human voiceshuman-voices
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

— Marcus Aurelius Source: absea I don't knowohhhkat
In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

— Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Source: danseurs lemniscateslemniscates

Life will perpetuate itself, events will go on happening, spiritual conflicts will be resolved, and I will play no part in them. I have nothing to hope for on either side, moral or physical. For me there is perpetual sorrow and shadow, the night of the soul, and I have no voice to cry out.

Cast your riches far from this numb body, for it is insensible to the seasons of the spirit or the flesh .

— Fragments of a Journal in Hell by Antonin Artaud Source: toniiu An Existential Lifefuckyeahexistentialism
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: insaneisonlyanidea Exploring Wanderloveexploringwanderlove
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel paradoxical sentimentsparadoxicalsentiments
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

— Carson McCullers Source: youngfolksociety eloquenceeloquence
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Source: black-wolves we'll be back shortlyblack-wolves
I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

— Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Source: harukimurakami Haruki Murakamiharukimurakami
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

— Galileo Source: 1000scientists One Thousand Scientists1000scientists
Trying to impose order on something where there had never been any was a waste of effort.

— 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Source: murakamiquotes Haruki Murakami Quotesmurakamiquotes