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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.

Haruki Murakami

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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Hungry Love Want
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
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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Couple Existence Relationship Remember
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
Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Feeling Sorry Yourself
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
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
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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