“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”
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“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”
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Haruki Murakami
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