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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
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.
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?
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.
