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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
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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Hungry Love Want
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Distinguish Real Writing
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

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