Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

— Haruki Murakami Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

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