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.
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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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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