Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
HARUKI MURAKAMILife is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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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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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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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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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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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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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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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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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