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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside, an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!"

"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"Don't ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!"

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!"

"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!"
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."


"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."


"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."


"Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?"


"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."


"And, lying on my bed in some biscuit-colored hotel room in Nice, with a balcony facing the Promenade des Anglais, I watch the clouds reflected on sliding panes and marvel even how my sadness can make me happy . . ."


"The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star..."
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