Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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