"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.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
~ Haruki Murakami ~












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