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.
HARUKI MURAKAMITaking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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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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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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