Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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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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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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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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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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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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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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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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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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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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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
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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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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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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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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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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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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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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 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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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.