If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMII’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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