Light and Darkness Quotes

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Light and Darkness Quotes
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“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”
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“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it鈥檚 taboo in social intercourse.”
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“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can鈥檛 settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won鈥檛 let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?”
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“I鈥檒l worry about tomorrow tomorrow.”
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“When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change. But seeing things in a different light doesn鈥檛 mean he鈥檚 changed his vantage point.”
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“As I see it, you鈥檙e always unsteady on your legs. You can鈥檛 find your courage. You鈥檒l go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is no why; it鈥檚 because you鈥檙e free to. You enjoy the luxury of picking and choosing because you have the latitude. You鈥檙e never pushed into a tight corner as I am, so it never occurs to you to thumb your nose at the world.”
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“It鈥檚 so unrewarding, being a woman.”
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“He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?”
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“There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.”
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“There you are. It鈥檚 what I鈥檝e been saying all along. You have too much latitude. And that makes you extravagant. The result is, the minute you acquire something you like, you want the next thing. But when something you like gets away, you stamp your feet in chagrin.鈥�
鈥淲hen have I ever behaved that way?鈥�
鈥淏elieve me, you have. You鈥檙e behaving that way now. It鈥檚 the price you pay for your latitude. And it鈥檚 what gives me the keenest pleasure. It鈥檚 the Karma principle, poverty taking its revenge on affluence.”
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鈥淲hen have I ever behaved that way?鈥�
鈥淏elieve me, you have. You鈥檙e behaving that way now. It鈥檚 the price you pay for your latitude. And it鈥檚 what gives me the keenest pleasure. It鈥檚 the Karma principle, poverty taking its revenge on affluence.”
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“With a palate as unrefined as mine I can鈥檛 taste any difference between this French food and what we had at that sleazy bar I got into trouble for inviting you to. To someone like me, they taste equally good. I know you disdain me for that. But the truth is, I take pride in that very fact, and I disdain you for disdaining me. I wonder if you take my point. Think about it in this regard: Which of us is constrained and which of us is free? Which is happy and which feels his hands are tied? Which is tranquil and which one wavers? As I see it, you鈥檙e always unsteady on your legs. You can鈥檛 find your courage. You鈥檒l go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is no why; it鈥檚 because you鈥檙e free to. You enjoy the luxury of picking and choosing because you have the latitude.”
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― Light and Darkness
“He seemed to become aware of a dark, imponderable force pushing him left when he meant to go right or pulling him back when he meant to go forward. Until that moment, he
would have felt certain that his actions had never been subject to restraint
by others. He had been certain that he did whatever he did of his own
accord, that everything he said he intended to say.”
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would have felt certain that his actions had never been subject to restraint
by others. He had been certain that he did whatever he did of his own
accord, that everything he said he intended to say.”
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“-Se帽ora Tsuda, yo existo para desagradar. Digo y hago cosas a prop贸sito que desagradan a la gente. No hacerlo me resulta doloroso, no puedo resistirlo. No s茅 vivir de otra manera. En caso contrario, la gente ignora mi existencia. Soy un ser despreciable y no me importa lo mucho que la gente pueda odiarme. No hay af谩n de venganza en m铆, simplemente, me esfuerzo en resultar desagradable: eso es lo que realmente deseo.
La psicolog铆a de este hombre, nacido en un mundo completamente ajeno al suyo, le resultaba incomprensible. Su deseo como mujer no era otro que el de ser amada por todos, y comportarse en consecuencia para lograrlo. Especialmente si se trataba de Tsuda. Es m谩s, siempre hab铆a cre铆do firmemente que ese mismo deseo era compartido sin excepci贸n por todas las personas del mundo.
-Parece usted muy sorprendida. Nunca ha conocido a alguien como yo, 驴verdad? Deber铆a saber que hay todo tipo de gente en este mundo.
Kobayashi ten铆a una expresi贸n satisfecha.
-S茅 que le desagrado a usted. No ha dejado de desear en todo momento e intensamente que me marchase lo antes posible, pero como la criada, por alguna extra帽a raz贸n, a煤n no ha vuelto, se ha visto obligada a hablar conmigo. Soy consciente de ello, se lo aseguro. Usted, en cambio, solo puede pensar en m铆 como en un tipo desagradable, y no es capaz de explicarse c贸mo me he convertido en alguien as铆. Es lo que he tratado de explicarle por encima. No nac铆 odioso, aunque en realidad tampoco puedo estar seguro de eso.
Una vez m谩s, rio con todas sus ganas.”
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La psicolog铆a de este hombre, nacido en un mundo completamente ajeno al suyo, le resultaba incomprensible. Su deseo como mujer no era otro que el de ser amada por todos, y comportarse en consecuencia para lograrlo. Especialmente si se trataba de Tsuda. Es m谩s, siempre hab铆a cre铆do firmemente que ese mismo deseo era compartido sin excepci贸n por todas las personas del mundo.
-Parece usted muy sorprendida. Nunca ha conocido a alguien como yo, 驴verdad? Deber铆a saber que hay todo tipo de gente en este mundo.
Kobayashi ten铆a una expresi贸n satisfecha.
-S茅 que le desagrado a usted. No ha dejado de desear en todo momento e intensamente que me marchase lo antes posible, pero como la criada, por alguna extra帽a raz贸n, a煤n no ha vuelto, se ha visto obligada a hablar conmigo. Soy consciente de ello, se lo aseguro. Usted, en cambio, solo puede pensar en m铆 como en un tipo desagradable, y no es capaz de explicarse c贸mo me he convertido en alguien as铆. Es lo que he tratado de explicarle por encima. No nac铆 odioso, aunque en realidad tampoco puedo estar seguro de eso.
Una vez m谩s, rio con todas sus ganas.”
― Light and Darkness