If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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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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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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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 don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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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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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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