Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
HARUKI MURAKAMIBut 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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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