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Book cover for What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: The book that made Harry Styles believe he could run a marathon
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: The book that made Harry Styles believe he could run a marathon by Haruki Murakami
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Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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Albert Camus
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus
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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche
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