I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
HARUKI MURAKAMILost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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 don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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