Haruki Murakami Quotes
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You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
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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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It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.
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One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.
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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.
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We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
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Is it against the law for me to know it?
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By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.
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What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.
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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?