Thank you for connecting 2 sayings of Murakami Haruki :)

1.痛みは避けがたいが、苦しみはオプショナル

(https://archive.ph/Ca9rE)

Now, I don’t know how representative this book is of Murakami’s novelistic style, but I wonder: Is this low-maintenance, attention-deficit prose part of Murakami’s attraction, especially among the young? Do people enjoy reading him for the same reason they persist in listening to music as blandly familiar as Clapton’s? If Martin Amis is engaged in a “war against cliché” — a phrase in danger of becoming a cliché itself — then Murakami, on the evidence of this book, is a serial appeaser. How much does his thigh hurt? “Like crazy.” How do we know the weather is nice? Because — as he tells us (twice) — there’s “not a cloud in the sky.”

  self-styled zero-percenter and book reviewer in the above 

2.^_^？

(Norwegian Wood)

(Roughly, “growth is pain, nongrowth is unfortunate”)