Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.
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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 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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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 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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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
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But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?
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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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If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
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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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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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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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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.