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 MURAKAMIIf you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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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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