When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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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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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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