Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
HARUKI MURAKAMIBut 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.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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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 think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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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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