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‘it’s impossible to understand real pain unless you’ve experienced it yourself.’

his writing is beautiful but i am confused

‘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 persons essence? we convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?’

confusion about the the girl is. obviously. but other than that haruki murakami describes things SO beautifully with so much detail