The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
HARUKI MURAKAMIListen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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