Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMII dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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 remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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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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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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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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