Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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 remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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