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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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That's wrong, she declared. Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
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Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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