I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
HARUKI MURAKAMIIf you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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 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’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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