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.
HARUKI MURAKAMIUnfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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