Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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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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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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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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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
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But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
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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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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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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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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
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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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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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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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Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
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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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We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.