"Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself."
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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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"Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage."
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"I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death."
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"I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself"
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"Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can."
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"Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?"
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"Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard."
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"So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
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"The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories."
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"It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
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"The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats."
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"All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world."
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"His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body."
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"A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person"
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"[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
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"Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?"
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"The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls."
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"It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch."
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"What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!"
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