More quotes by Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

"From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain."
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"Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die."
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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?"
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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 Read More
"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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