Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
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Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
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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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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
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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.
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I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.
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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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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
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Will you wait for me forever?
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It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.
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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.