Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory...
Kazuo IshiguroAll children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
Kazuo IshiguroYou say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
Kazuo IshiguroStichwörter: love
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
Kazuo IshiguroMaybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.
Kazuo IshiguroStichwörter: perception self-awareness rejection outsiders
That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.
Stichwörter: life innocence future dancing children nostalgia melancholy sadness cruelty heartbreak coldness
Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
Kazuo IshiguroStichwörter: fatalism
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
Kazuo IshiguroStichwörter: thinking understanding traveling
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Kazuo IshiguroI can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
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