The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
HARUKI MURAKAMIMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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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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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 dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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