Haruki Murakami Quotes
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You're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you…
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I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people…
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow…
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People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most…
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Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my…
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When…
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I…
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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…
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Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh…
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
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Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the…
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
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I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.
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But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility.…
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Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to…
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive
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