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235e377 I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami may-kasahara Haruki Murakami
7883d57 I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky creative feelings inspirational sputnik-sweetheart haruki-murakami murakami feeling sky Haruki Murakami
91291eb I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view. the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami numbness numb haruki murakami
05b5b01 Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. haruki-murakami Haruki Murakami
cdb8a41 When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody. loneliness past haruki-murakami i remembrance lonely Haruki Murakami
f383c59 Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. hard-boiled-wonderland haruki-murakami Haruki Murakami
cb9058b The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. reality imagination the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami murakami flee japanese flight japan imagine Haruki Murakami
500d825 The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter life inspirational haruki-murakami survivor growing-up hard trees growth survival strong Haruki Murakami
4e66ce8 You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person. aomame haruki-murakami powerlessness self-defense Haruki Murakami
4a2b7b5 "Here's what hurst the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the bottom of the ocean. It hurts a lot." men-without-women haruki-murakami Haruki Murakami
81419c3 No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me. haruki-murakami may-kasahara empty fake sad Haruki Murakami