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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
"I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you."
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
No matter how vivid memories may be, they can’t win out against the power of time.
From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death.
Each and every moment, our bodies are on a one-way journey to collapse and deterioration, unable to turn back the clock.
Death is not the opposite of life; it exists as a part of them.
Norwegian Wood (1987)
In Hollywood in the fifties, a happy ending always involved marriage—the creation of an environment in which lovers could have sex legally.
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
After Dark (2004)
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
Dance Dance Dance (1988)
Loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance.
Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.
Dance Dance Dance (1988)
You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is.
Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?