Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMIWhatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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.
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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’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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