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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
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Me, I've seen 45 years and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.
— Haruki Murakami
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Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
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