No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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 history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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 had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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