"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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.
~ Haruki Murakami ~












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"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
"Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
"When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
"This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
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"It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
"Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
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