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 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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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 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 only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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