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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes: After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
         

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?


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