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Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo...more

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norweg...more

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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not ...more

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This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

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The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the...more

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I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled “Junitaki Today.” Of course, the book’s “today” being 1970, it...more

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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally ...more

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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

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And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mi...more

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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the st...more

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Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) i...more

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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

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History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.