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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

Haruki Murakami

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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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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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Feeling Sorry Yourself
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Break Up Enough Escape Fact Love Relationship
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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Hungry Love Want
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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

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