"Sensei left his mark in places that didn’t appear in photographs or blueprints; in how surfaces felt to the touch, or the way a building was easy to use. Those were the things I’d wanted to see, feel, sketch, and record. With each survey I was coming closer to understanding his way of thinking, closer to finding the traces left by his hands." -- from 'The Summer House' by Masashi Matsuie, trans. Margaret Mitsutani
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“You always need a bit more hope than worries. Anything else would be pointless, wouldn’t it?” -- from 'The Café With No Name' by Robert Seethaler, trans. Katy Derbyshire
“Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for short-term benefits to increase the wealth and power of individuals, corporations and governments. The rest is due to thoughtlessness, lack of education, and poverty. In other words, there seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart. True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our heart.”
― from 'The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times' by Jane Goodall
"And all of us, looking up, suddenly understood what lightness was. We understood what life could be like for someone who really did whatever he wanted, who believed in nothing and obeyed no one; we understood what it would be like to be such a person, and we understood that we would never be such people."
~~ from 'Tyll' by Daniel Kehlmann, trans. Ross Benjamin
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