Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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.
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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 better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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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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I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.
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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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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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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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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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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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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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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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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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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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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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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
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I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
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To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
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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.