Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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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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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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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 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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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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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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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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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
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Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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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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If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
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At times like this, adults need a drink.
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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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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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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.