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66fc01e
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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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thought
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Haruki Murakami |
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Haruki Murakami |
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92ed0b2
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I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
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moving-on
pain
relationships
past
life
love
infidelity
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Haruki Murakami |
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b931f9b
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And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
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life-lessons
inspirational
adversity
problems
trials
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haruki murakami |
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3f8d5bf
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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inspirational
running
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haruki murakami |
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239881f
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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love
inspirational
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Haruki Murakami |
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a8b2397
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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better."
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vulnerability
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Haruki Murakami |
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19ef6ab
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
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loneliness
sadness
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Haruki Murakami |
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020eff4
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
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loneliness
friends
friendship
life
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Haruki Murakami |
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778c9e7
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Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step righ..
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Haruki Murakami |
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3320710
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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
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dreams
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Haruki Murakami |
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e85f454
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Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Haruki Murakami |
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e68effd
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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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c5f13ef
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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Haruki Murakami |
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fabad96
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .
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happiness
stories
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Haruki Murakami |
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32c2660
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the wate..
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life
missed-chances
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Haruki Murakami |
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ee2bf09
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
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Haruki Murakami |
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4e0d13d
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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Haruki Murakami |
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c25f7d1
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
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time
future
past
ticking
possibilities
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Haruki Murakami |
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47bca6c
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Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
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war
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Haruki Murakami |
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4bb998d
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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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Haruki Murakami |
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c788a66
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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a431db8
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She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
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Haruki Murakami |
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7a38096
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
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Haruki Murakami |
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f63da9d
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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life
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Haruki Murakami |
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077118a
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
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people
friendship
love
philosophy
possibility
important
thought
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Haruki Murakami |
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72b9883
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here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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d414473
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
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loss
life
love
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Haruki Murakami |
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953434b
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.
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loss
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Haruki Murakami |
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bad4cec
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In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.
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struggles
life-lessons
point-of-no-return
problems
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Haruki Murakami |
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4c7dba3
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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Haruki Murakami |
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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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page-192
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Haruki Murakami |
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In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
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Haruki Murakami |
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The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish."
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Haruki Murakami |
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Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.
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relationships
friendships
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Haruki Murakami |
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cc95420
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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18111dc
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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
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stars
space
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Haruki Murakami |
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19b391a
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As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
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Haruki Murakami |
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e666d43
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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waiting
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Haruki Murakami |
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f2cdcc5
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No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
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sorrow
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Haruki Murakami |
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bfef339
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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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Haruki Murakami |
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eede52d
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Sometimes I feel so- I don't know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so.
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Haruki Murakami |