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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
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

“Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring?”
― Haruki Murakami

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul”
― Albert Camus