Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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I'm not so weird to me.
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
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But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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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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Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man?
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How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
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You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
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I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.
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Please remember: things are not what they seem.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.