My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
HARUKI MURAKAMIUnfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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