“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

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