Mieganti Panda | Sleeping Panda

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“I wonder how many people you’ve had to hurt to get what you want.” (Mr. Robot)

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Kiekviena vidutinybė turi savo melancholiją.

Finn Skårderund, Nerimas (280 psl.)

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[...] compartmentalizing the pain, living in the distraction, just like the holidays: the fake Santas, the plastic trees, the annoying Christmas carols. One big song-and-dance production to sell ourselves the theatre that everything's jolly, at least for a moment. But when it's all over, Santa's gone back to his shitty day job. The trees get disassembled and thrown in a closet. The music's faded away. What then?

Mr. Robot (2019)

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“Make me feel like everything is okay.” (Mr. Robot)

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Jie primygtinai tvirtina, kad seksas tinklu demonstruoja tiesą, juk devyniasdešimt procentų seksualumo slypi smegenyse. Tuomet aš esu labai priklausomas nuo likusių dešimties procentų. Haliucinuoti kito žmogaus fizinį artumą labai sunku.

Finn Skårderund, Nerimas (248 psl.)

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“Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it. To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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The truth is a symbol, and symbols are the truth. It is the best to grasp symbols the way they are. There's no logic or facts, no pig's belly button or ant's balls. When people try to use a method other than the truth to follow along the path of understanding, it is like trying to use a sieve to hold water.

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore)

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If that painting wants to say something, then best to let it speak. Let metaphors be metaphors, a code a code, a sieve a sieve. Is there something wrong with that?

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore)

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People devote a lot of energy to thinking about things. Whether they want to or not. Yet in the end we all just have to wait – only time can tell how events play out. The answers lie ahead.

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore)

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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is all we have right now.

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore)

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People can accomplish anything, I thought, if they want it badly enough. There are channels through which reality can become unreal. Or unreality can enter the realm of the real. If we desire it that strongly. Deep in our heart. But that didn't mean that we were free. It might demonstrate quite the opposite.

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore)

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if nobody has told you this i’m telling you now: it’s okay not to have a specific goal in life or one big dream you live and breathe for. i know there’s something awfully romantic about the idea of waking up every day working towards something specific and feeling like that’s your purpose in life, but that’s not all life is about, you know? if you have that, that’s great! and if you don’t, that’s great too! wake up every day wanting to try something new, to explore your mind and this world with it. there’s nothing wrong with changing hobbies every week, one person’s goal can be to play the piano like mozart, but you’re also allowed to just follow your curiosity and try 50 different instruments just to know how they make your heart feel. you can try ballet one day and explore heavy metal playlists the next. don’t let anyone tell you that you need a purpose to be happy and to feel like you really deserve to be here, because you don’t. your purpose is YOU and the magical mystery of how stardust came alive in the shape of your body, mind and soul. and that’s enough, i promise. YOU are enough, i promise.

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"Try to look on the bright side," [...] "This might sound like dumb advice, but if you're going to walk down a road, it's better to walk down the sunny side, right?"

Haruki Murakami 'Killing Commendatore' (p. 228)

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[…] bet juk nepriversi žmonių klausyti. Jie patys turi susimąstyti, kai jiems ateis laikas, stebėdamiesi, kas atsitiko ir kodėl pasaulis sprogo po jų kojomis.

Ray Bradbury (451 Farenheito [193 psl.])

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Žinai, ką aš manau, Mėja? Manau, kad tu, sėdėdama prie stalo ir siųsdama šypsenėles, kažkodėl manai gyvenanti nepaprastai įdomų gyvenimą. Tu komentuoji, užuot veikusi. Matai Nepalo nuotrauką, spaudi šypsenėlės mygtuką ir tau atrodo, kad ten apsilankei. O kas nutiktų, jei iš tikrųjų ten nuvyktum? Ak taip, tavo "Smaukytojų rato" reitingas, ar kaip ten tas šūdas vadinasi, nukristų žemiau reikiamo lygio! Mėja, ar pati supranti, kad su tavimi nepakeliamai nuobodu?

Dave Eggers (Ratas)

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Naturally at the time I never imagined that this person would soon enter my life and change its direction entirely. Without him, none of the events that happened to me would have ever taken place. At the same time, if he hadn't been there I might very well have lost my life in the darkness, with no one ever the wiser.

Haruki Murakami (Killing Commendatore [p. 58])

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Žmogus visą laiką ilgisi. Ilgisi kažko – Dievo ar dar ko nors aukštesnio. Ilgesys dažnai susijęs su religija. Ilgesys turi kilmę ir tikslą. Aš ilgiuosi kažko, to, jos. Modernusis nenuilsimas neturi šaknų, o kai kilmė neaiški, neaiškus tampa ir tikslas. Nenuilsimas yra nerviška vibracija, besisukanti apie save. Aš nežinau, ko ilgiuosi. Nepaliaujamas nerimas visų pirmiausia siekia nutrūkti. Jis pats yra savo atramos taškas.

Finn Skårderund, Nerimas (25 psl.)