From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
 Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (2002). copy citation

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Author Haruki Murakami
Source Kafka on the Shore
Topic experience running
Date 2002
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Gabriel
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