Tokyo daydreaming
“It is a protected world. To some extent at least yo information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, a
ou have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed and sometimes not.�
Kazuo Ishiguro
“All men are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them.� Miyamoto Musashi
“She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her, there’s nothing there.” Ryu Murakami
“Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.� Kobo Abe
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.�
Ryonosuke Akutagawa
“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.�
Kobo Abe
“The day autumn began. I had a cavity in my tooth filled with silver.� Ryunosuke Akutagawa
“You don’t need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don’t ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”
Kobo Abe
“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eyes.� Miyamoto Musashi
“The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.� Haruki Murakami
“It is hard to be an individual in Japan.� Haruki Murakami
“Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.� Haruki Murakami
texts: Miyamoto Musashi Kobo Abe Ryonosuke Akutagawa Haruki Murakami Ryu Murakami Kazuo Ishiguro photography&design:
Milica Nikolic
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