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"Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down."
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"But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything youve worked towards, the life youve carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but youre left with a wound you cant heal on your own and cant believe youll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar."
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Ryu Murakami
Ryu Murakami
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Ryu Murakami is a Japanese novelist, essayist and filmmaker His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan His best known novels are Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, Coin Locker Babies, and In the Miso Soup
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"People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder."
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"Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary , deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally."
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"“You have to watch your step with women these days, Pops. She could be involved with Yakuza or something. Even some of the girls in my class -- you should hear the stuff they talk about. Fifteen years old, and theres nothing they dont know. Were not in the age of Peace and Love anymore.”"
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"Buying and selling is the basis of all social intercourse, and the commodity an actor or model offered for sale was nothing less than her own being."
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"Yeah, hed said, maybe its just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it dont hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, its not just because my bellys all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like Im myself again"
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