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I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.
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Haruki Murakami |
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We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.
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parallel
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Haruki Murakami |
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Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side
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Haruki Murakami |
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Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work, whatever their field. To build something where there was nothing requires deep individual concentration, and in most cases that kind of concentration occurs in a plac..
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Aunque logres ocultar los recuerdos, o enterrarlos muy hondo, no puedes borrar la Historia. Mas vale que se te quede grabado, la Historia no puede borrarse ni alterarse. Porque significaria matarte a ti mismo.
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superacion
historia
recuerdos
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This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
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Haruki Murakami |
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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Only the dead stay 17 forever.
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Haruki Murakami |
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She gave me this look - she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.
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Haruki Murakami |
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When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.
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Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent.
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But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.
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Haruki Murakami |
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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?
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Haruki Murakami |
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Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
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reproduction
psychology
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
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imagination
responsibilities
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Haruki Murakami |
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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.
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japan
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Haruki Murakami |
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To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That's my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.
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Haruki Murakami |
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A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.
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Haruki Murakami |
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People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
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And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.
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japanese
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Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
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Haruki Murakami |
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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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One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
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Haruki Murakami |
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When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.
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love-story
lovers
sadness
tears
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And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I got to know her well, and we talked about all sorts of things. We understood each other. You could even say I loved her.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I know I'm a little different from everyone else, but I'm still human being. That's what I'd like you to realize. I'm just a regular person, not some monster. I feel the same things everyone else does, act the same way. Sometimes, though, that small difference feels like an abyss. But I guess there's not much I can do about it.
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You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you," the boy named Crow says. "Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That's what being tough is all about. Do that and you really will be the toughest fifteen-year-old on the planet. You following me? There's still time. You can still get your self back. Use your head. Think about what you've got to do. You're no dunce. You should be able to figure it out."
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Haruki Murakami |
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I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don't want to look at it anymore, you stop.
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Haruki Murakami |
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The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Eyes mark the shape of the city.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow
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loneliness
shadow
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Haruki Murakami |
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You can't keep counting forever
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Haruki Murakami |
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I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
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short-story
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Haruki Murakami |
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Es una lastima, pero hay cosas que no pueden volver atras. Una vez has dado un paso hacia delante, por mas que lo intentes, ya no puedes retroceder. Si se estropean, asi se quedan para siempre.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don't even have anything to offer myself.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I cleared my schedule and went with her to the concert hall at Ueno Park. The performance was brilliant. The soloist's technique was outstanding, the music both delicate and deep, and the pianist's heated emotions were there for all to feel. Still, even with my eyes closed, the music didn't sweep me away. A thin curtain stood..
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romance
music
love
surrealism
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Haruki Murakami |
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If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after
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hear
things
listen
look
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Haruki Murakami |
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal, finally: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original "intention" had have been."
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Haruki Murakami |
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There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.
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men
women
innocence
ignorance
knowledge
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