Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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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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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