What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
HARUKI MURAKAMIYou can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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