Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
HARUKI MURAKAMINo matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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 know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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