Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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