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Kazuki Kaneshiro
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A lone person devoted to reading novels has the power equal to a hundred people gathered at a meeting.”
“Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, 'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' Keep that in mind.”
“Try not to think too hard about it. For now, it’s best you cry your eyes out and eat whatever the hell you want.”
“A tree that is unbending is easily broken in a powerful storm. But not grass.”
“Nationality isn’t much more than a lease to an apartment, ” I said. “If you don’t like the apartment anymore, you break the lease and get out.”
“A lone person devoted to reading novels has the power equal to a hundred people gathered at a meeting.” Then he’d continue, saying, “The world would be a better place with more people like that,” and smile good-naturedly. And then it felt like maybe he was right.”
“Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, ‘He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.’ Keep that in mind.”
“I was called an 'ethnic traitor' and kicked in the pit of the stomach, then called a 'sellout' and stuck across the face again. I really couldn't understand what the last one meant. I knew the literal meaning of the word, of course, but I just couldn't bring myself to think that I was a sellout. I could sense the incongruity of the label but didn't have words to express it. Then someone who was able to say exactly what I was feeling appeared, like a superhero. A voice rose up from the back of the classroom. "We've never belonged to a country we could sell out”
“The results of the mock exams came back. To my surprise, my academic rating went up from about the calories of an egg white to that of egg custard.”
“Take a good look at the wide world,' he said. 'You decide the rest.”
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darkness-and-light, self-reflection, japan, community, decision, internal-battle, country, abyss, nationality, nietzsche, selling-out, belonging, growing-up, japanese, attack, race, korean, world, immigration
