One Thousand Summers

And isn’t it better really to leave things only hinted at?  — Junichiro Tanizaki, Some Prefer Nettles

I am nothing. You are right. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything. − Haruki Murakami,  1Q84

"You've always been fond of understanding people too well."      "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily." ― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes