![]() “Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. ![]() We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?” – Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ![]() “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.” – Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. ![]()
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