İnsanların doğrudan gözlerinin içine bakmak beni korkutuyor, kendimi zayıf hissetmeme neden oluyor.
''Speaking of contradictions'', Oshima suddenly says, ''when I first met you I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time you're running away for all you're worth.''
''From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't and when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them...''
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"Sessizlik, sözlerden daha güçlüdür.
Bazı hikayeler, sessizlik içinde anlatılır ve en derin duygular, kelimelerin ötesindedir."
The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to 'absorb' that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have found memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
I'm not all that bright, I just have my own way of thinking. That's why people get disgusted with me. They accuse me for always bringing up things that are better left alone. If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you.
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and live a normal life, they're the ones you have to watch out for.
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams.
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is 'boring.'
Anılar insanı içten içe ısıtır. Ama aynı zamanda sizi de parçalarlar.
Eğer beni hatırlarsan, başkalarının unutup unutmaması umurumda değil.
Ve fırtına dindiğinde bunu nasıl başardığını hatırlamayacaksın. Fırtınanın gerçekten dinip bitmediğinden bile emin olamayacaksınız. Ama bir şey kesindir. Fırtınadan çıktığınızda, fırtınaya tutulanla aynı kişi olmayacaksınız. Bu fırtınanın amacı da bu.
Her birimiz bizim için değerli bir şeyi kaybediyoruz. Kaybedilen fırsatlar, kaybedilen olasılıklar, bir daha asla geri getiremeyeceğimiz duygular. Hayatta olmanın anlamının bir parçası da bu.