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.
HARUKI MURAKAMIThe most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.
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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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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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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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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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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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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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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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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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