33 Quotes by Fuminori Nakamura

But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there’d be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there’s one starving child in the world, all property is theft.

For example, even if this was some kind of fairy tale with a happy ending, real people’s lives keep on going after the story finishes. As a story it ends happily, even if the characters die of something immediately afterwards. In the same way, I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.

Taste everything in the whole world. Even if you should fail at these tasks, taste the emotion that comes with failure.

Happiness is a fortress. Because happiness is an enclosed space only a lucky few can enjoy, the lucky few who can turn a blind eye to people like you, people with pain and sorrow, who can turn a blind eye to poverty and hunger.

I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place.

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I’d broken the rules so many times.

We’re attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don’t care what happens to our social structure – revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people’s collective consciousness. It’s like throwing a cream pie in their face.

Life is a mystery. But listen. Why did I turn up in your life in the first place? Do you believe in fate? Was your fate controlled by me, or was being controlled by me your fate? But in the end, aren’t they just two sides of the same coin?

When humans’ nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one.