If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMINobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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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 want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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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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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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