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.
HARUKI MURAKAMIListen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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And 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.
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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 far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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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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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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