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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Haruki Murakami

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
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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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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Ocean People Talk
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

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