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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?
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.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
