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 MURAKAMIThere’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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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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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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