"In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and criti...
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is reall...
"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
"How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept fro...
"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up...
"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you...
"A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would t...
"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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