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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.

Haruki Murakami

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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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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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
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 don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Feeling Sorry Yourself
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
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
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Dreamer Dreams Positive Right Thinking
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

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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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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