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“Everyone can achieve immortality to a smaller or greater degree, or shorter or longer duration, and the idea already starts occupying people’s minds in early youth”.
Milan Kundera
in Immortality
“ I can’t rid myself of my old familiar dark doubts. Aren’t I spending all my time and energy in some useless pursuit?” Hauling a bucket of water to a place that’s on the verge of flooding? Shouldn’t I give up any useless effort and just go with the flow?”
Haruki Murakami
in SPUTNIK - Sweetheart
“Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.”
Haruki Murakami
in SPUTNIK - Sweetheart
“1Q84 – that’s what I’ll call this new world, Aomame decided. Q is for “question mark.” A world that bears a question.”
Haruki Murakami
in 1Q84
“Her style overall was juvenile and artless, but the good and the bad passages stood out from each other so clearly that choosing among them took far less time and trouble than he had expected. The artlessness made some passages dense and difficult but it gave others a startling freshness. “
Haruki Murakami
in “1Q84”
“For a few seconds, I stood there in a strange dim place. Where the things I could see did NOT exist. Where the invisible DID. Finally, though, the real number 28 bus stopped in front of me, its entirely real door opening. I clambered aboard, heading off to some other place…”
Haruki Murakami
in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“No matter how vivid a memory, the power of time was stronger. I knew this instinctively.”
Haruki Murakami
in Killing Commendatore
“However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.”
J.K.Rowling
in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Learning is not like a coin, which remains whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn out through use and ostentation. Is not a book like that, in fact?”
Umberto Eco
in The Name of the Rose
“Spinoza says that reason is no match for passion and what we must do is to turn reason into a passion.”
Irvin D.Yalom
in The Spinoza Problem
Blog Posts
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Book Reviews
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On the Path or On the Highway to Immortality? The Spinoza Problem by Milan Kundera
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Klara and the Sun – A Juxtaposition of Humans with Artificial Friends The Spinoza Problem by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Sputnik Sweetheart – A Book About Self-Discovery and Loneliness The Spinoza Problem by Haruki Murakami
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1Q84…Probably Not Such a Fictive World After All…(wondering about 2Q20) The Spinoza Problem by Haruki Murakami
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A master blend of realism and (futuristic?) fiction The Spinoza Problem by Kazuo Ishiguro
