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.
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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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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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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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