I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Rain has the power to hypnotize.
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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 only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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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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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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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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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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