“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
Author detail
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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“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shoo...”
“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 two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
“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 for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The...”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't lov...”
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“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that e...”
“I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook h...”
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“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe eve...”
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”
“Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and va...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
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“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
“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. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact....”
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
“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.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
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