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.
HARUKI MURAKAMISilence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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 think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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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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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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