Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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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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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 don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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