Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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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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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
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And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.
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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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...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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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
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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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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside 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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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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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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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.
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I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?