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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.

Haruki Murakami

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
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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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
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
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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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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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
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Feeling Sorry Yourself
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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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