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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.

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
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of 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
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 had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Distinguish Real Writing
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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard

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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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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