Remains of the Day
Kazuo IshiguroSözler ve Alıntılar
But that doesn’t mean to say, of course, there aren’t occasions now and then - extremely desolate occasions - when you think to yourself: “What a terrible mistake I’ve made with my life.” And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.
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“the rest of my life stretches out like an emptiness before me”
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Don't keep looking back all the time, you're bound to get depressed.
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 is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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?
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.