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Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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Haruki Murakami |
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My life is like a trunk stuffed with dirty laundry. It contains more than enough material to drive any one human being to mental aberration - maybe two or three people's worth? My sex life alone would do. It's nothing I could talk about to anyone. No, I can't go to a doctor. I have to solve this on my own.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You can have all the desire and ache inside you want, but what you really need is a concrete starting point.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it." -from "Hear the Wind Sing"
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Haruki Murakami |
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ltfkyr 'Slan fy 'n lmwt rH@ Gyr mnTqy blmr@ fm dmn lm nmt b`d l ymknn ljzm bshy'.qd ykwn lmwt 'b`d mm ntSwr `n lrH@ lmrtj@.
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Haruki Murakami |
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.
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Haruki Murakami |
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There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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joesph-conrad
terror
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Haruki Murakami |
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
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Haruki Murakami |
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At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.
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present
past
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Haruki Murakami |
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We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in w..
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Haruki Murakami |
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And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love.
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dreamlike
surreal
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Haruki Murakami |
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The world is full of incomprehensible words
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Haruki Murakami |
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone's asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there's darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywher..
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Haruki Murakami |
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It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season
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Haruki Murakami |
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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Pensar libremente es distanciarse del cuerpo. Salir de esa jaula que te limita. Romper las cadenas y simplemente darle alas a la mente.
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pensar-libremente
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Haruki Murakami |
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable tex..
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Haruki Murakami |
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I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of -- that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect...I find that encouraging.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You have to experience it to understand. One thing I can say, though, is that once you see that true sight with your own eyes, the world you've lived in up till now will look flat and insipid. There's no logic or illogic in that scene. No good or evil. Everything is merged into one. And you are part of that merging. You leave the boundary of your physical body behind to become a metaphysical being. You become intuition.
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Haruki Murakami |
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There must be a limit to that kind of lifestyle, though," she says. "You can't use that strength as a protective wall around you. There's always going to be something stronger that can overcome your fortress. At least in principle." "Strength itself becomes your morality." "You catch on quickly." "The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want i..
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Haruki Murakami |
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Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
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Haruki Murakami |
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Ella ya solo existe en mis recuerdos. Se ha ido de mi lado. Estaba aqui, pero ha desaparecido. Y alli no hay termino medio. Donde no hay lugar para el compromiso no puede haber un termino medio. Los quiza tal vez existan al sur de la frontera. No al oeste del sol.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Si no quieres acabar en un manicomio, abre tu corazon y abandonate al curso natural de la vida
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vida
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Haruki Murakami |
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I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.
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Haruki Murakami |
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That's what love's all about. You're the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.
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love
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Haruki Murakami |
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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Haruki Murakami |
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But if I'm with you, I'm not afraid.
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Haruki Murakami |
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They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.
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short-story
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Haruki Murakami |
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Las lagrimas, mientras caian, se banaban en la luz de la luna y brillaban hermosas como un cristal. Y he visto que mi sombra tambien derramaba lagrimas. Incluso se veia, nitida, la sombra de las lagrimas. Senor "pajaro-que-da-cuerda". ?has visto alguna vez la sombra de una lagrima? La sombra de las lagrimas no es una sombra cualquiera. Es muy distinta. Viene de un mundo lejano especialmente para nuestros corazones. O tal vez no. Quiza las l..
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Haruki Murakami |
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They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs."
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dogs
knowledge
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Haruki Murakami |
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Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.
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Haruki Murakami |
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my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.
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wittgenstein
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Haruki Murakami |
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We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.
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loss
love
flow
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Haruki Murakami |
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Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either
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Haruki Murakami |
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I'll bet they think they can leave you alone because you've really got it together. But maybe sometimes you don't really have it together.
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Haruki Murakami |