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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

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

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

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

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

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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."

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