The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Харуки Мураками

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JuliaLi311 января 2026 г.
"There might be some things you're better off not knowing."
"But when you like a person a lot, you want to know everything about them. It's only natural."
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JuliaLi328 января 2026 г.
What id real, and what is not? In this world is there really something like a wall separating reality from the unreal?
I think there might be. No, not might—there is one. But it's an entirely uncertain wall. Depending on circumstances and the person. it's texture, it's shape transforms. Like some living being.
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JuliaLi328 января 2026 г.
No matter how much sadness there was, how much loss and despair awaited us, you had steadily move forward, step by painful step.
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JuliaLi328 января 2026 г.
As he watched his wife's belly grow, as he gently stroked it, he imagined the child that they were going to have. What kind of child, he wondered, would be born into this world? And what sort of person would that child grow into? What sort of ego would the child have, and what kind of dreams?
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JuliaLi328 января 2026 г.
— <...> It's strange—he became livelier in a human sense after he died, but it was like something important he'd kept hidden inside finally appeared once he was dead.
— Like a hard shell that covered his heart when he was alive had been taken away.

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JuliaLi312 января 2026 г.
<...> Always screwed up things up. Screwed up really describes it.
There were two reasons. One is that I already had you. Your existence your words, what you looked like—all of this was part of my heart. I was always, at some deep level, thinking about you. That had to be the number one reason.
But at the same time, there was a constant fear inside me. The fear that even if I managed to unconditionally love someone, there would come a day when the person I loved would suddenly vanish, without explanation, and I would end up rejected for a reason I could never fathom. That woman could one day vanish like smoke, leaving me behind, alone. With a hollow and empty heart.
I never wanted to go through that again. It would be better to live quietly, all alone.
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warsawa1 февраля 2025 г.
Такой дисбаланс в воспоминаниях поразил и смутил меня. Были ли эти вещи забыты со временем или их вообще никогда не существовало? Что из того, что я помнил, было правдой, а что - вымыслом? Где заканчивалась истина и начиналась иллюзия?
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warsawa1 февраля 2025 г.
Кроме того, расстояние между нами не имеет значения, пока мы духовно связаны.
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warsawa1 февраля 2025 г.
— Зачем они это сделали? - спросил я сержанта, стоявшего рядом со мной. - И кто это вообще? Что заставило их броситься вниз?
Он пожал плечами.
— Может быть, они просто хотели перестать думать, - сухо ответил он, вытирая рот тыльной стороной ладони, - Иногда это кажется единственным выходом.
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warsawa1 февраля 2025 г.
Наверное, не существует человека, у которого не было бы тайн. Нам, людям, нужны секреты, чтобы выжить в этом мире.
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