If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
HARUKI MURAKAMISilence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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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 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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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 think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
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