Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Popular Quotes

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But…

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such…

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Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-decepti…

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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

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