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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

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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Feeling Sorry Yourself
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Distinguish Real Writing
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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
Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ending Listen One Liner War
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dreamer Dreams Positive Right Thinking
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up Enough Escape Fact Love Relationship

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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