A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMIConcentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
HARUKI MURAKAMII don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
HARUKI MURAKAMIThe most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
HARUKI MURAKAMII want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMILost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMIMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMIPeople 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.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMIRemove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
HARUKI MURAKAMIAnd once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
HARUKI MURAKAMII think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
HARUKI MURAKAMIBut 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.
HARUKI MURAKAMINo matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMILost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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