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“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

tags: emptiness, loneliness

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“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

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“Other than when I’m driving, I don’t try to look too far ahead, and once I got out, I never wanted to look back.”
― Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

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“You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

tags: blood, death, suicide

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“As Duke Ellington once said, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.” In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to “good” music transcends questions of genre.”
― Haruki Murakami, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

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