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April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn’t talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“I don’t know, it’s stupid being 20,” she said. “I’m just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody’s pushing me from behind.”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“OK, so I’m not so smart. I’m working class. But it’s the working class that keeps the world running, and it’s the working class that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can’t understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that?”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once. 

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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I was at ease in everything, yet satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me yearn for another.

- Albert Camus, The Fall

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What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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And every night I thought of you. Now that I can no longer see you, I realize how much I need you.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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In the beginning, Eurynome, the Goddess of All Things, rose naked from Chaos, but found nothing substantial to rest her feet upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves.

- The Pelasgian Creation Myth, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

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black coffee and a play at 6:30am; May 26

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I have to talk to you. I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“That afternoon, at four o’ clock, we parted, just for a week . . . alas, that week became forever.”

- C.P. Cavafy, The Afternoon Sun

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“I guess I’ve been waiting for so long I’m looking for perfection. That makes it tough.”

“Waiting for the perfect love?”

“No, even I know better than that. I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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The Penguin Book of Hell edited by Scott G. Bruce: The Vision of Tundale

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“Letters are just pieces of paper,” I said. “Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Be regular and orderly in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

- Gustave Flaubert, 1876

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The purpose of life is the pursuit of things that make it meaningful.

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