A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMIListen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
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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 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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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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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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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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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