Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.
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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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Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
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Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man?
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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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Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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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'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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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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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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Please remember: things are not what they seem.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
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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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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.