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“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

“For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. To avoid missing that moment, I recommend that you keep your collection small.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

“There’s no need to finish reading books that you only got halfway through. Their purpose was to be read halfway.”
― Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.”
― Rampo Edogawa, The Edogawa Rampo Reader