Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
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"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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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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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.
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My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
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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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Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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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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...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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In dreams begins responsiblities.
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
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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.