From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

~ Haruki Murakami

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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

~ Haruki Murakami

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I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

~ Haruki Murakami

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