Men Without Women

by Haruki Murakami

Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.

Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”

This woman was the third woman I’d gone out with who’d killed herself. If you think about it—and you don’t really need to, since it’s obvious—this is an extremely high fatality rate.