Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
HARUKI MURAKAMIListen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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