No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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 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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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