Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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