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288 pages, Hardcover
First published April 18, 2014
‘The proposition that we can look into another person's heart with perfect clarity strikes me as a fool's game. I don't care how well we think we should understand them, or how much we love them. All it can do is cause us pain. Examining your own heart, however, is another matter. I think it's possible to see what's in there if you work hard enough at it. So in the end maybe that’蝉 the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.’
‘Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai’蝉 personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said about the kind of lies they tell, what situation they tell them in, and how the lies are told. But at a certain point in their lives, all women tell lies, and they lie about important things. They lie about unimportant things, too, but they also don’t hesitate to lie about the most important things. And when they do, most women’蝉 expressions and voices don’t change at all, since it’蝉 not them lying, but this independent organ they’re equipped with that’蝉 acting on its own. That’蝉 why – except for a few special cases – they can still have a clear conscience and never lose sleep over anything they say.’
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”
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Lampreys think very lamprey-like thoughts. About lamprey-like topics in a context that’蝉 very lamprey-like. There are no words for those thoughts. They belong to the world of water. It’蝉 like when we were in the womb. We were thinking things in there, but we can’t express those thoughts in the language we use out here.
Dreams are the kind of things you can—when you need to—borrow and lend out.
Suddenly one day you become Men Without Women. That day comes to you completely out of the blue, without the faintest of warnings or hints beforehand. No premonitions or foreboding, no knocks or clearing of throats. Turn a corner and you know you’re already there. But by then there’蝉 no going back. Once you round that bend, that is the only world you can possibly inhabit. In that world you are called “Men Without Women.” Always a relentlessly frigid plural.