Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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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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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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...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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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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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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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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You mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.