"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live."

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Source : FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 12, 2011

Haruki Murakami

“I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.”
“You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.”
“A flower won't open if I yell at it and say â€œBloom!”
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
“The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]”
“I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.”
“I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”

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