Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMILost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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 had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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