If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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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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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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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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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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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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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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