Jarvis

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“Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

tags: japan, japanese, japanese-literature

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“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”
― Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters, 1940-1956

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“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: comfortably-numb, drugs, impending-doom

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