Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
HARUKI MURAKAMIDon’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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