I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
~ Haruki Murakami

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves.
~ Haruki Murakami

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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

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There’s no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami

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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
~ Haruki Murakami

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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
~ Haruki Murakami

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
~ Haruki Murakami

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People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami

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That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
~ Haruki Murakami

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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.
~ Haruki Murakami

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