Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Haruki MurakamiTags: life murakami haruki hard-boiled-wonderland
I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.'
'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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Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.
Haruki MurakamiTags: flaws haruki-murakami hard-boiled-wonderland
I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.
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It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.
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Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
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