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“Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.”
― ASANO INIO

“I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

“I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.”
― Inio Asano

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.”
― Franz Kafka

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle