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Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...more

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I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e s...more

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I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don’t know the conclusion ...more

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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

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Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

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I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

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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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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not ...more

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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothi...more

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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.