I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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