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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

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Hungry Love Want
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ocean People Talk
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Change Direction Fate Life Storm
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
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
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Distinguish Real Writing
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ending Listen One Liner War
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

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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