I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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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.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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