Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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 think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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 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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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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 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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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