Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMIMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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