Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMIAnyone 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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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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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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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Nobody 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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.
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