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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Couple Existence Relationship Remember
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Change Direction Fate Life Storm
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ending Listen One Liner War
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 MURAKAMI

Hungry Love Want
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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