If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
HARUKI MURAKAMILost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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 want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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