Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
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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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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
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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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Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!
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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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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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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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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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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
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Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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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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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.