I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
HARUKI MURAKAMII don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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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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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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