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"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!"

"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."

"His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."

"Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously-a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it."

"If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ['The unbearable heaviness of being']"

"Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ['Living on probation']"

"It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down."

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy."
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"We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals."

"The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication."

"I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe."

"I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game."

"I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad."

"Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan."
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