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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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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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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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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Hard Time Manage Person Storm Struggle Survive Walk
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
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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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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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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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Dreamer Dreams Positive Right Thinking

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