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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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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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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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