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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.

Haruki Murakami

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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Feeling Sorry Yourself
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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Ocean People Talk
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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
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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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
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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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Distinguish Real Writing
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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
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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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.

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