“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing
Variant: All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”
"The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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