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“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

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