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Books1 quote
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami · 1987Connecting with others1 quote
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013Falling in love1 quote
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Haruki Murakami · 2002Intimacy1 quote
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013Isolation1 quote
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? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999Loneliness1 quote
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? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999Memories1 quote
Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami · 2002Memory1 quote
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. — Haruki Murakami · 2002Nostalgia1 quote
Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami · 2002The human condition1 quote
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? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999The past1 quote
Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami · 2002Thinking for oneself1 quote
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami · 1987Thinking outside the box1 quote
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami · 1987Vulnerability1 quote
No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal. — Haruki Murakami · 2013