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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
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Hard Time Manage Person Storm Struggle Survive Walk
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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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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