Haruki Murakami Quotes
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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
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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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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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I'm not so weird to me.
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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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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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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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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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The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
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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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All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.