Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
Haruki MurakamiGrandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
Haruki MurakamiSilence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
Haruki MurakamiIf you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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