Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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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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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
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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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At times like this, adults need a drink.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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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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It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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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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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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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
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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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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.
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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.
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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.