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No matter how vivid memories may be, they can’t win out against the power of time.

— Haruki Murakami

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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

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

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

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

If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding.

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

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

"I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you."

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

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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