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.
HARUKI MURAKAMITaking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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 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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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