235e377
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I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
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the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
haruki-murakami
may-kasahara
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Haruki Murakami |
7883d57
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
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creative
feelings
inspirational
sputnik-sweetheart
haruki-murakami
murakami
feeling
sky
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Haruki Murakami |
91291eb
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I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
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the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
haruki-murakami
numbness
numb
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haruki murakami |
05b5b01
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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.
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haruki-murakami
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Haruki Murakami |
cdb8a41
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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.
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loneliness
past
haruki-murakami
i
remembrance
lonely
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Haruki Murakami |
f383c59
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Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.
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hard-boiled-wonderland
haruki-murakami
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Haruki Murakami |
cb9058b
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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reality
imagination
the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
haruki-murakami
murakami
flee
japanese
flight
japan
imagine
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Haruki Murakami |
500d825
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The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
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life
inspirational
haruki-murakami
survivor
growing-up
hard
trees
growth
survival
strong
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Haruki Murakami |
4e66ce8
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You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
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aomame
haruki-murakami
powerlessness
self-defense
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Haruki Murakami |
4a2b7b5
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"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."
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men-without-women
haruki-murakami
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Haruki Murakami |
81419c3
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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.
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haruki-murakami
may-kasahara
empty
fake
sad
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Haruki Murakami |