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From Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
- The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
- I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind…
- Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.…
- It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this…
- Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch…
- Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I…
- Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
- I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then…
- On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child,…
- And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their…
- In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
- Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
- Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
- Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite…
- 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…
- Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people…
- Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
- So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's…
- The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you…
- Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of…
- Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.…
- Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
- Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to…
- This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I…
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