If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMII don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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