Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.
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Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
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To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy self-therapy, that is and there's sex as pastime.
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Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
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I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.
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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
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The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?
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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
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I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
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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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But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.
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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
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If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
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Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
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I move, therefore I am.
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.
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One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
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I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.
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What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.