No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
HARUKI MURAKAMISometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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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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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 remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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