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41 " Ấy không, Nishioka lơ đễnh lắc đầu. Kì vọng quá lớn vào đối phương là điều không thể tránh khỏi, nhất là khi mình đối với họ toàn tâm toàn ý. Cũng giống như việc trên đời có mấy ai chẳng thiết tha trông đợi bất kì lời hồi đáp nào từ người thương của họ? "
― Shion Miura , The Great Passage
42 " Japanese has so many homonyms that it’s easy to write the completely wrong character, and those mistakes creep in, "
43 " Dictionaries are well respected, and they’re immune to market fluctuations. Isn’t there anyone with the balls to aim high and think long-term? “Forget "
44 " Only the moon never sleeps. From the window, it peers in on my heart. "
― Shion Miura , The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
45 " Xuanzang, the seventh-century Chinese monk and scholar, accomplished the amazing feat of journeying to India, bringing back sacred Buddhist texts, and translating them into Chinese. The priest Zenkai devoted the final thirty years of his life to chiseling through rock to create a cliff-side tunnel for worshipers. A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope, wrought over time by indomitable spirits. "
46 " There in the dusty library stacks, the dictionary seemed to emit a light as pure as the beams of the moon. The "
47 " Professor . . .” Majime was moved by this declaration. “Words and the human heart that creates them are absolutely free, with no connection to the powers that be. And that’s as it should be. A ship to enable all people to travel freely across the sea of words—we "
48 " kodawari, "
49 " People with a finite amount of time at their disposal, setting out together across the broad, deep sea of words. The voyage was scary but enjoyable. "
50 " Những gì không nói được bằng lời thì nên viết ra "
51 " A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope, wrought over time by indomitable spirits. Finally "
52 " When you start feeling like you’ve got the hang of things, that’s when you’re most in danger. Don’t let yourself get complacent. "
― Shion Miura , Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2)
53 " Mình cũng muốn dùng thành ý của mình để đáp lại thành ý của đối phương. "
54 " He grew interested in words as a means of communicating thoughts and feelings, and majored in linguistics in college. "
55 " And yet—if only Nishioka had something that meant as much to him as dictionaries did to Majime and the rest. Then surely he would see everything differently. He would see a world of such dazzling brightness it would hurt. "
56 " But he wasn't trying to get Kaguya in his clutches -- he sincerely wanted a relationship with her, that's all. If she was willing. "
57 " I think it’s better if two people don’t expect too much of each other. "
58 " What’s even stranger is the second definition: ‘Being enamored of a member of the opposite sex, sometimes accompanied by sexual desire. Romantic love.’” “What’s strange about that?” Majime looked at her, trying to read her face. He seemed to have lost all confidence. “Why limit it to a member of the opposite sex? If a homosexual person is enamored of someone and feels intermittent sexual desire for them, are we saying it’s not love?” “No, I didn’t have any such intention. But does it really—” “Matter?” She cut him off. “Yes, it matters. The Great Passage is supposed to be a dictionary for a new age. If we yield to the majority and stay bound to stale ways of thinking and feeling, how can we ever offer true definitions of kaleidoscopic words—words that are in constant flux but have underlying bedrock meanings? "
59 " been addressed to him. Flustered, he shook his head. “A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul. “People travel on it and gather the small points of light floating on the dark surface of the waves. They do this in order to tell someone their thoughts accurately, using the best possible words. Without dictionaries, all any of us could do is linger before the vastness of the deep. "
60 " dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul. “People travel on it and gather the small points of light floating on the dark surface of the waves. They do this in order to tell someone their thoughts accurately, using the best possible words. Without dictionaries, all any of us could do is linger before the vastness of the deep. "