Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMIAnd 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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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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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 think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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 sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
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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.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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