Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.
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Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
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Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.
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Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.
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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
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Chance encounters are what keep us going.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
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What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.