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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.

Haruki Murakami

Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Feeling Sorry Yourself
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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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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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 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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Break Up Enough Escape Fact Love Relationship
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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Alone Disappointment Friendship Lead
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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Change Direction Fate Life Storm
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember

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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