Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.
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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
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Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
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She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.
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And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.
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There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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Chance encounters are what keep us going.
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I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
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Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.
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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
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When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.
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It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
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Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.