“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall,
you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore;
just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”
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you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore;
just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”
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“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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