No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMII want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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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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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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