Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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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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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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