you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
Haruki MurakamiSomeone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,โ Aomame said. โWinston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empireโs budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
Haruki MurakamiNow and then may not be enoughโฆYou have to enjoy it while youโre still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and canโt do it anymore.
Haruki MurakamiBut why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I canโt explain it myself right this moment. But maybe โ just maybe โ if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Laiโs soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why Iโm interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.
Haruki Murakami