Haruki Murakami Quotes
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
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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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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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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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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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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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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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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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In dreams begins responsiblities.
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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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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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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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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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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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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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.