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.
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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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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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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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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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 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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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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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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