Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
HARUKI MURAKAMIMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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 think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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