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“The beauty of pinball is in its unpredictability; you may hit a high score or lose it all, but the thrill is in the journey.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

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“At times my body feels like a prison, a solid, shifting island threading through the crowd”
― Han Kang, The White Book

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“Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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“No one knows and no one needs to know. Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of it's own accord.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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“We can't just sit and wait for society to get better. If more people started to read, they'll be able to to emphatise with the pain of others and the world will become a better place.”
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