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The memory itself is full of acid, and eventually they are is more than all the cries of pain, and all the horrified faces of the past, with increasingly deaf appeals, of which we glimpse vague outlines.
Livret de Famille
I believe that we still hear on the doorways the footsteps of those who had crossed them, and, since then, have disappeared.
Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
After Dark
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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