Sneak Out

At times, we tend to avert our eyes from the shadow, those negative parts, or else, try to forcibly eliminate those aspects. No matter how high a wall we build to keep intruders out, no matter how strictly we exclude outsiders, no matter how much we rewrite history to suit us, we just end up damaging and hurting ourselves," says Murakami. “You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadow and carefully observe the darkness that resides within you.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

I can't afford to hate people. I don't have that kind of time.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward.

Knocked the architecture right out of his legs.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.