Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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