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.
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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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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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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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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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