Chance Quotes by Haruki Murakami

12 Chance quotes by Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami’s musings on chance arrive in twelve succinct lines that echo his dreamy, introspective style. The excerpts offer a quiet, contemplative look at how he perceives the role of randomness in everyday moments.

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Chance encounters are what keep us going.

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“I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.”

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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or…

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Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest…

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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it,…

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“But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of…

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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise…

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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it…

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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.…

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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…

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“Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think…

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“And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds…

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“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”

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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

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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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“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”

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“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…

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“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,…

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“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the…

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“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of…

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“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out…

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“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s…

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“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about”

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