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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.

Haruki Murakami

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Couple Existence Relationship Remember
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Feeling Sorry Yourself
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dreamer Dreams Positive Right Thinking

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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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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