Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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My biggest faults is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?
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Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
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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.
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My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
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The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
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Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.
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Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!
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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
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We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.
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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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No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.
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There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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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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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
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I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
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That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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.