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Even chance meetings are the result of karma...Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

— Haruki Murakami

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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

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Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

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If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding.

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Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

"I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you."

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