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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Haruki Murakami |
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My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
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life
japanese
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Haruki Murakami |
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7e57d11
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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow through him. This was natural for him, something he'd done ever since he was a child, without a second thought. Before long the borders of his consciousness fluttered around, just like the butterflies. Beyond these borders lay a dark abyss. Occasionally his consciousness would fly over the border and hover over that dizzying black crevasse. But Nakata wasn't afraid of..
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Haruki Murakami |
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People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I go out on the porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. Even in a planetarium you wouldn't find as many. Some of them really look big and distinct, like if you reached your hand out intently you could touch them. The whole thing is breathtaking. Not just beautiful though--the stars like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done up till now, what ..
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life
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Haruki Murakami |
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I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin...
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Haruki Murakami |
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d3c66d3
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Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
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Haruki Murakami |
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No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
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Haruki Murakami |
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952de92
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You're , you see, and nobody else. You you, right?
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Haruki Murakami |
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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing. And as time went by, the knot began to take on a clear and simple form, a form that I am able to put into words, like this: Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. Translate into words, it's a cliche, but at the time I felt it not as words but as that knot of air inside me. Death exists - in a paperweight, in ..
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's no different from building stations. If something is important enough, a little mistake isn't going to ruin it all, or make it vanish. It might not be perfect, but the first step is actually building the station. Right? Otherwise trains won't stop there. And you can't meet the person who means so much to you. If you find some defect, you can adjust it later, as needed. First things first. Build the station. A special station just for h..
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Haruki Murakami |
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.
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Haruki Murakami |
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sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
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Haruki Murakami |
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in, Mr. Nakata. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand sti..
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Haruki Murakami |
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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
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sex
women
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She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things."
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Haruki Murakami |
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What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have"
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pithy
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Haruki Murakami |
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It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another. Warm with life, hopelessly unst..
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Haruki Murakami |
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
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Haruki Murakami |
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I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
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Haruki Murakami |
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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.
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Haruki Murakami |
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You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won't come out
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Haruki Murakami |
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.
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Haruki Murakami |
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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Haruki Murakami |
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m yj`l mn 'swy hw 'n n`rf 'nn lsn b'swy.
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Haruki Murakami |
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This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
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life
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Haruki Murakami |
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Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.
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Haruki Murakami |
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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.
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Haruki Murakami |
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I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while. Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense.
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Haruki Murakami |
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46acffe
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Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
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Haruki Murakami |
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eb049b3
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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.
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money
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owe
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Haruki Murakami |
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d09f892
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Life is like a box of cookies.
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Haruki Murakami |