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“You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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