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And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster
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trust
guts
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Haruki Murakami |
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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Haruki Murakami |
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4c687fc
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No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
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Haruki Murakami |
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So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.
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Haruki Murakami |
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about 'the Shadow' in one of his books: 'It is as evil as we are positive... the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's ..
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Haruki Murakami |
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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perfection
future
work
life
starting
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Haruki Murakami |
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8d064e6
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In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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Haruki Murakami |
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The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily.
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heart
stop
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Haruki Murakami |
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But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag."
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Haruki Murakami |
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
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travel
runaway
shadow
yourself
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Haruki Murakami |
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I've had that kind of experience myself: I'm looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, 'I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what'. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It's like measles - you can't show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It's curi..
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Haruki Murakami |
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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."
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Haruki Murakami |
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And you'll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
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thought-provoking
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Haruki Murakami |
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit..
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Haruki Murakami |
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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
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violence
pain
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Haruki Murakami |
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Don't you see? It's just not possible for one person to watch over another person forever and ever. I mean, suppose we got married. You'd have to work during the day. Who's going to watch over me while you're away? Or if you go on a business trip, who's going to watch over me then? Can I be glued to you every minute of our lives? What kind of equality would there be in that? What kind of relationship would that be? Sooner or later you'd get..
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Haruki Murakami |
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If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.
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writing
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Haruki Murakami |
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609b90e
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you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, ..
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most
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Haruki Murakami |
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We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we're surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.
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Haruki Murakami |
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The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. A classroom, just after school let out, at the beginning of winter. They had neither the power nor the knowledge to know what they should offer to each other, what they should be seeking. They had never, ever, been truly loved, or truly loved someone else. They had never held anyone, neve..
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true-love
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Haruki Murakami |
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Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.
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memories
past
real
surreal
remembering
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Haruki Murakami |
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If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I move, therefore I am.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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Haruki Murakami |
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A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean... It takes on all kinds of different shapes--sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they ..
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others
society
state
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Haruki Murakami |
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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.
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Haruki Murakami |
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6c3f191
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Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
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life
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Haruki Murakami |
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327147c
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The world is an inherently unfair place.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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life
luck
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Haruki Murakami |
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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
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Haruki Murakami |