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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

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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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Hard Time Manage Person Storm Struggle Survive Walk
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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.
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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Dreamer Dreams Positive Right Thinking
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ocean People Talk
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
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
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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