No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
Haruki MurakamiEven if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
Haruki MurakamiThe library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
Haruki MurakamiI wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
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