There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
HARUKI MURAKAMIRain has the power to hypnotize.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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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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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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