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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.

Haruki Murakami

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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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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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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I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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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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