murakami

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75fa6bc	Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.	norwegian-wook murakami japan	Haruki Murakami
708cc23	What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.	kafka-on-the-shore murakami	Haruki Murakami
7883d57	I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky	creative feelings inspirational sputnik-sweetheart haruki-murakami murakami feeling sky	Haruki Murakami
af48855	Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.	life haruki murakami	Haruki Murakami
dbf75b5	But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?	murakami	Haruki Murakami
f46d6a1	You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.	murakami talent	Haruki Murakami
3c4cc99	From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.	pain existence life coexist find-a-way haruki-murakam the-wind-up-bird-chronicle murakami intense center japanese painful japan exist purpose	Haruki Murakami
1270cca	Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.	stretching murakami japanese	Haruki Murakami
6c458de	"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper."	murakami	Haruki Murakami
eb049b3	No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.	money murakami owe	Haruki Murakami
db1b338	Of course, they're not clowning around to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.	life inspirational murakami	Haruki Murakami
7fce798	"A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another.	memories murakami	Haruki Murakami
4ffdb37	"Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said. "Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance."	revenge murakami morals	Haruki Murakami
c271779	But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.	love iq84 murakami	Haruki Murakami
f690325	When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self sat down on a bench and began to turn toward my real self, who was watching this hallucination on the screen of the night. My dead self came nearer, just as if it might want to shake hands with my real self. That's when I panicked and tried to run. But my dead self pursued me and finally caught me, entered me and controlled me. I'd felt then just the way I felt now. I felt as if a hole had opened in my head from which consciousness and memory leaked out and in their place the rash crowded in, and a cold like spoiled roast chicken. But that time before, shaking and clinging to the damp bench, I'd told myself, Hey, take a good look, isn't the world still under your feet? I'm on this ground, and on this same ground are trees and grass and ants carrying sand to their nests, little girls chasing rolling balls, and puppies running.	world murakami japanese self	Ryū Murakami
9818625	Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.	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
6b966f1	"And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you."	love sputnik-sweetheart murakami need	Haruki Murakami
2c86510	Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.	love miss-saeki kafka-on-the-shore murakami	Haruki Murakami
8afa5d3	"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima"	responsibility imagination eichmann kafka-on-the-shore murakami	Haruki Murakami

75fa6bc

Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.

norwegian-wook murakami japan

Haruki Murakami

708cc23

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

kafka-on-the-shore murakami

Haruki Murakami

7883d57

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

creative feelings inspirational sputnik-sweetheart haruki-murakami murakami feeling sky

Haruki Murakami

af48855

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

life haruki murakami

Haruki Murakami

dbf75b5

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?

murakami

Haruki Murakami

f46d6a1

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

murakami talent

Haruki Murakami

3c4cc99

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

pain existence life coexist find-a-way haruki-murakam the-wind-up-bird-chronicle murakami intense center japanese painful japan exist purpose

Haruki Murakami

1270cca

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

stretching murakami japanese

Haruki Murakami

6c458de

"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper."

murakami

Haruki Murakami

eb049b3

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

money murakami owe

Haruki Murakami

db1b338

Of course, they're not clowning around to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.

life inspirational murakami

Haruki Murakami

7fce798

"A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another.

memories murakami

Haruki Murakami

4ffdb37

"Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said. "Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance."

revenge murakami morals

Haruki Murakami

c271779

But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.

love iq84 murakami

Haruki Murakami

f690325

When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self sat down on a bench and began to turn toward my real self, who was watching this hallucination on the screen of the night. My dead self came nearer, just as if it might want to shake hands with my real self. That's when I panicked and tried to run. But my dead self pursued me and finally caught me, entered me and controlled me. I'd felt then just the way I felt now. I felt as if a hole had opened in my head from which consciousness and memory leaked out and in their place the rash crowded in, and a cold like spoiled roast chicken. But that time before, shaking and clinging to the damp bench, I'd told myself, Hey, take a good look, isn't the world still under your feet? I'm on this ground, and on this same ground are trees and grass and ants carrying sand to their nests, little girls chasing rolling balls, and puppies running.

world murakami japanese self

Ryū Murakami

9818625

Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.

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

6b966f1

"And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you."

love sputnik-sweetheart murakami need

Haruki Murakami

2c86510

Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

love miss-saeki kafka-on-the-shore murakami

Haruki Murakami

8afa5d3

"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima"

responsibility imagination eichmann kafka-on-the-shore murakami

Haruki Murakami