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 MURAKAMIThe 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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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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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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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