“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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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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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not a...”
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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Wa...”
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this...”
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
“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 thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet someti...”
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“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we ge...”
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little...”
“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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“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
“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.”
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but...”
“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a pe...”
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