Me, I've seen 45 years and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. β¨ Pinball, 1973. Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1985.
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- Itβs precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being aliveβor at least a partial sense of it. β¨ Haruki Murakami (2011). What I Talk About When I Talk β¦ βΆ
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