Haruki Murakami Quotes
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He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.
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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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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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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.
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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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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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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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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
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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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If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.
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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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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from 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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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.
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Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
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We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.