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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
