I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMIMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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