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Inside Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- 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.…
- As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
- Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
- 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…
- Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
- Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of…
- Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the…
- Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their…
- For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made…
- I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed…
- 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.…
- They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he…
- Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs…
- Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at…
- I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book…
- I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
- My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens…
- Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
- I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
- Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
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