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This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
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Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously."
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Most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
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Haruki Murakami
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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