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.
HARUKI MURAKAMIAnd once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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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 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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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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