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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.

Haruki Murakami

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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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Ending Listen One Liner War
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
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 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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Hungry Love Want
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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 had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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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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Ocean People Talk
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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 think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

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