Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.
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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
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It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.
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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
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Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
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Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.
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If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
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All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.
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It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.
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I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
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I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
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You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
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I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.
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I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.