You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
HARUKI MURAKAMII think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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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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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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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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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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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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’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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