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 MURAKAMIIf you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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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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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 dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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