If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMIAnyone 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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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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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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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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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of 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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
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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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