Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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Please remember: things are not what they seem.
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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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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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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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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
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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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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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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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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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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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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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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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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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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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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
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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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I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.
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I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.