You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
HARUKI MURAKAMINobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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