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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

Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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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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Hungry Love Want
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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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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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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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
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Ocean People Talk
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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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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