"All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious."
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"It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship."
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"Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world."
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"Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose."
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"I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain."
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"The world is full of ways and means to waste time."
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"Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system"
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"The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night."
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"You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?"
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"Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader."
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"My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime."
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"Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all."
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"I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do."
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"You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point."
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"I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar."
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"So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish."
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"Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift."
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"I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge."
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"The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book."
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"As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die."
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