“being able to hold a real live woman in my arms regularly, brought me a certain level of calm.”
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Haruki Murakami
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“being able to hold a real live woman in my arms regularly, brought me a certain level of calm.”
“In the silence of the woods it felt like I could hear the passage of time, of life passing by. One person leaves, another appears. A thought flits away and another takes its place. One image...”
“Did time really flow in such a steady and linear way? Couldn't this be a mistaken way of thinking, an error of major proportions?”
“There are plenty of things in history that are best left in the shadows. Accurate knowledge does not improve people’s lives. The objective does not necessarily surpass the subjective, you kn...”
“Yet what was time, when you got right down to it? We measured its passage with the hands of a clock for convenience’s sake. But was that appropriate? Did time really flow in such a steady an...”