I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMIEverything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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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But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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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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