- MONDAY: THE DEVIL MAKES HIS APPEARANCE
- Page 7
- . . Well, no, that’s a lie. That’s not quite how it happened.
- Page 8
- “This life will someday have to end, so until that final day arrives, Do what you want to do, do it, do all you can, That’s how you face tomorrow.”
- Page 10
- The Devil looks just like you.
- Page 11
- like all cats thinks it’s a good idea to sit on whatever you’re trying to work on or read.
- Page 12
- Did I mention I’d like to fall in love? Just once . . .
- Page 12
- Even the cat looked disgusted. He was keeping his distance.
- Page 14
- “The thing is . . . I mean, there’s just not many things I want to do before I die.” “Oh, really?” “At least, I don’t think I could think of ten. And the ones I can think of are probably really boring.” “Well, I guess that’s life, huh?”
- Page 19
- Maybe the entire human race is unnecessary. The world we live in has no meaning at all.
- Page 25
- When I do finally die, I’d like to go quietly, peacefully, and with dignity— that’s how I always thought it would happen. But when you’re suddenly faced with death, you find yourself willing to accept a helping hand from anyone, even the Devil, in order to stay alive.
- Page 28
- My life was over and I had no one who mattered enough for me to call.
- Page 28
- I had lived alongside people and created so many links, but they were ultimately all so tenuous.
- TUESDAY: IF PHONES DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD
- Page 34
- Mobile phones have been around for only about twenty years, but in just that short time they’ve managed to take complete control over us. In just twenty short years something that we don’t really need has come to rule our lives, making us believe that we can’t do without it. When human beings invented the mobile phone, they also invented the anxiety of not having one.
- Page 56
- I guess it’s the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so we act as if we’re going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it has to end.
- Page 57
- it was when I couldn’t speak to her that she was on my mind the most.
- WEDNESDAY: IF MOVIES DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD
- Page 61
- “There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.”
- Page 61
- “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
- Page 71
- “I’m the king of the world!” Oh, DiCaprio. Come on, man, calm down.
- Page 73
- To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things . . . and to laugh. Beautiful songs, beautiful scenery, feeling nauseous, people singing, planes flying across the sky, the thundering hooves of horses, mouth- watering pancakes, the endless darkness of space, cowboys firing their pistols at dawn
- THURSDAY: IF CLOCKS DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD
- Page 88
- human beings may think that they’re looking at the world as it is, but they’ve got it all wrong. In actual fact, they’ve just imposed a meaning on things, come up with a definition of what the world is all about which happens to suit them.
- Page 90
- With freedom comes uncertainty, insecurity, and anxiety.
- Page 90
- Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by rules and routines— despite knowing that costs them their freedom.
- Page 95
- “Humans are strange creatures.”
- Page 110
- Cats are really something. They’ll just ignore you half the time, but they seem to know when you’re really in need of some comforting.
- FRIDAY: IF CATS DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD
- Page 116
- “Cats and humans have been partners for over ten thousand years. And what you realize when you’ve lived with a cat for a long time is that we may think we own them, but that’s not the way it is. They simply allow us the pleasure of their company.”
- Page 122
- There are different ways of showing you love someone.”
- Page 127
- When people are sad, you’re able to cry along with them. And when people are happy you’re able to share their joy with them.
- SATURDAY: IF I DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD
- Page 135
- For me, cats are no different from the sun and the ocean and the air we breathe.
- Page 136
- “Yeah, but just being alive doesn’t mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important.”
- Page 138
- Humans tend to regret the life they never lived, the choices they never made.”
- Page 138
- Those who know they will die tomorrow live to the fullest in the limited time they have.
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