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Over Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- 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…
- I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...…
- All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others…
- The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the…
- 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 occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a…
- A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my…
- How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,…
- I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all…
- People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience,…
- Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for…
- I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to…
- If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
- I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on…
- 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…
- Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
- I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark…
- Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground…
- And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether…
- Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re…
- sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go…
- In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she…
- For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
- Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
- Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I…
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