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Haruki Murakami

" Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) "

Haruki Murakami

Truth , Novelists

related quotes

" I think you still love me, but we can‚Äôt escape the fact that I‚Äôm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I‚Äôm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I‚Äôm not angry, either. I should be, but I‚Äôm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. "

Haruki Murakami

Breakup

" If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. "

Haruki Murakami

Love , Inspirational

" 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Love

" 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 sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. "

Haruki Murakami

Love , Longing

" 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Love

" 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Love , Hope

" 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 in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? "

Haruki Murakami

Friendship , Essence

" here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn‚Äôt 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Love , Hurt

" Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. "

Haruki Murakami

Endurance , Life

" 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 shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. "

Haruki Murakami

Love

" 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Happiness , Love

" 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. "

Haruki Murakami

Love , Pain

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