Norwegian Wood
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“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”
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it’s basically impossible for everybody’s justice to prevail or everybody’s happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.
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no truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.