"Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like I'm myself again"
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0
And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0
Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary , deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0
People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder.
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0
Buying and selling is the basis of all social intercourse, and the commodity an actor or model offered for sale was nothing less than her own being.
Ryu Murakami, CC BY-SA 4.0

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