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Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get t...
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. ...
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the r...
“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful...
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That w...
“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 s...
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. B...
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousand...
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest en...
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure...
“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but fr...
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decr...
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the t...
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do any...