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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami

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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Hungry Love Want
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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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Actual Deep Discover Hear Silence
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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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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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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Book Knowledge Reading Thinking
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Inevitable Inspirational One Liner Optional Pain Suffering
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Break Up I Miss You Memories Tears Warm
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Anniversary Care Couple Forget Love Remember
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.
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Heart Improvement People Positive Wisdom
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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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Business Feeling Motivational Opportunity Possible
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
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Break Up Enough Escape Fact Love Relationship
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
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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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Broken Heart Damage Human Being Hurt Person Recover Repair She Understand
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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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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Fall In Love Lover Memories Missing Pieces Room Search
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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Clock Decrease Future Increase Past Possiblity Regret Tick Unfortunate
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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Ending Listen One Liner War
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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I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

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