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.
HARUKI MURAKAMII 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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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And 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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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 think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
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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 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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