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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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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
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
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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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
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
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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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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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
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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