Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
HARUKI MURAKAMII dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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 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 only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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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 think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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