Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this 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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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 dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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