Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?
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Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
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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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We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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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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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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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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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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
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Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.
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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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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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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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It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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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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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.