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Kafka on the Shore - quotes
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You change
direction but the sandstorm chases you
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[Sandstorm] It will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades
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Light and dark
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(Nakata’s entering and
returning from the other world that Miss Saeki opened using the Entrance stone
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Things in life are fated by our previous lives
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God took a knife and cut everybody in
half, right down the middle
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People spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half
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It’s really hard for people to live their lives alone
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Nakata can’t write
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If you can’t read or write you’re
considered dumb
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[Nakata] your shadow is a bit- how should I put it? Faint
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That’s his own device for the kind of lives we lead
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Rather than a memory loss, it was more a memory lack
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The real Nakata had gone off somewhere, leaving behind for a time the fleshy
container
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The term “spirit projection” sprang to mind
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Like somebody pushes a switch in
my head and my body does its thing before my mind can even catch up
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Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle
people went through, is now like something from the distant past
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Just over the horizon the violence of war went on, with countless people dying
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Was I really seeing the
world?
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Runs into obstacles, ponders things, overcomes
difficulties
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[Schubert’s sonata in D Major] Because the sonata itself is imperfect
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It’s all a question of imagination
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It’s just like Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility
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It doesn’t matter whose dream it started out as, you have the same dream
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Just like Adolf Eichmann, caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler
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I’m killing them to collect their souls, which I use to create a special kind of flute
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No one, not even Nakata himself, could stop him
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Because reality’s just an accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life
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[Miss Saeki and lover] A regular Romeo and Juliet, one body and spirit
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The more connections, the deeper the meaning
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Man doesn’t choose fate
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That’s the basic worldview of Greek
drama
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Oedipus is drawn into tragedy because of his courage and honesty
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Lady Rokujo had no inkling that she’d become a living spirit
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We’re both in love with someone who’s no longer of this world
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You’re in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy who’s gone forever
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You’ve wandered into a labyrinth of time
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Miss Saeki was left Takamatsu in despair and met your father, Koichi Tamura, and
they got married
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In truth, all sensation is already memory
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Shape I may take, converse I may, I am rather an insensate being whose heart thus
differs from that of man
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Some meaningless appendage sitting there
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[Hoshino] Why should I ruin my health over some crummy job? (He realises what
makes him happy and knows that his job is unimportant compared to the journey
with Nakata
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[Archduke Trio] Opened up his eyes, gave Hoshino a revelation to reflect on life
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[Hoshino] I wouldn’t have understood the first thing about it – or even wanted to
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(Find that
his development is very shocking as it is a mix of high and low culture
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A little too much of a
coincidence
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The mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss
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You mean to grab it by the horns and fulfil the program that’s
been laid out for you
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I don’t know yet if this thing inside me is good or bad, but whichever it is, I can’t hold
it back or stop it
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A dark shadow resting
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(The Id)
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War is a perfect
self-contained being
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[Miss Saeki asking Nakata to burn her memories] I want it all burned up, every last
page, so nothing’s left
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You finally fall asleep
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You are part of a brand-new
world
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[Nakata] My role is to restore what’s here now to the way it should be
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[Miss Saeki] I slept around a lot, at one point even living in a sort of marriage, but it
was pointless
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[Miss Saeki to Nakata] Weren’t you in the painting? A figure in the sea in the
background?
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I can feel them, through your
hands
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[Kafka] Minus my hard shell, just flesh and bones, I head for the core of the
labyrinth, giving myself up to the void
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You have to forgive her
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(Burning Miss
Saeki’s memories means ridding the world of the symbol of the opening of the
entrance stone and everything that has happened since then
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[Hoshino] The most amazing thing of all has been you
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It’s been one of the most meaningful times
I’ve ever had in my life
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(By fulfilling his duties, Nakata can now move on with
his life and go back to what was his normal life in the other world, being able to read
and all
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[Oshima about The Chrysanthemum Pledge and the Tale of Genji] It would appear
that people can't become living spirits out of honour or love or friendship
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People throw away their lives for honour, love, or friendship, and
only then do they turn into spirits
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They always seem to be motivated by evil
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[Kafka] I have the distinct feeling I’m going to bump into those soldiers around the
next bend, even though they disappeared here more than sixty years ago
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Why do people wage war? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger
and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?
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That curse is branded on your soul even deeper than before
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[Crow to Kafka] There’s no war that will end all wars
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Let a bright light shine in and
melt the coldness in your heart
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[Miss Saeki] Ever since I came back to this town, I’ve been writing this
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Weren’t you in that
painting? A figure in the background? (Nakata was in the painting, similarly to Kafka
and Miss Saeki’s bf
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[Crow to Kafka] You have to forgive her
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I took everything
for granted
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[Hoshino]I’ve done some awful things in my life
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And it’s
too late to erase it all now
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[Hoshino] When things get sticky, I tend to head for the door
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I’ve never followed anything to the bitter
end
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It all depends on where and when I am
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And since I am, I
can transform into a kind of system
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[Johnnie walker’s tongue – slimy thing that comes out of Nakata’s mouth] It was long
and hugely thick, and once it was pulled out from deep within the man's throat, it
squirmed like a gigantic mollusk, forming dark words
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When you’re in the forest, you become a seamless part of it
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The library handles memories
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If you remember me, then I don’t
care if everybody else forgets
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[Miss Saeki to Kafka] The painting is originally yours
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And I was there
beside you, watching you
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I felt anger that didn’t fade
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I forgive you
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(Finally fulfilled what he came here to do in his pursuit of
happiness
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You’ve got to kill it
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If the thing is not killed,
Nakata will never rest in peace
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A long, pale, thin slimy object was squirming out of Nakata’s mouth
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[Hoshino to Nakata] It’s like a part of you will always live inside me
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(You can never escape from where you’re from/your fate
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[The Toilet Bowl] Flailing around’s not going to get you anywhere
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(You have to embrace
your fate, as resisting it will not get you anywhere
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I have to at least finish junior high
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[Hoshino] As long as I was alive, I was something
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But the longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve lost what’s inside me
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I’m going to follow Mr Nakata as long as I live
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You haven’t really lived, until you have a revelation
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Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle
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