I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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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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.
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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
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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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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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