Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.
(Kafka on the Shore )
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.Haruki Murakami
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
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I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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