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But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
Sylvia Plath
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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The Western world will never understand the follies of the Eastern world, nor the East grasp the follies of their brothers and sisters in the West.
Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Both of us have a lot of feelings we need to get out in the open. So if you want to take those feelings and smash somebody with them, smash me. Then we can understand each other better.”
“So if you don’t understand me better, what then?”
“You don’t get it, do you?” I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
As a forest fire raging out of control only stops when it reaches a lake or river, so hatred and vengeance can only be quenched by the waters of compassion.
Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts (Daya)
Author: Shyam Selvadurai (Sri Lankan-Canadian)
Title: The Hungry Ghosts
First Published: 2013
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot