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Sense Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this…
- There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think…
- The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you…
- 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…
- Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My…
- You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by…
- I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the…
- Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names…
- In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an…
- I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense…
- I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense…
- A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this…
- It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how…
- Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.
- We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us…
- Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light…
- Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer…
- I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go…
- When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are…
- In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
- It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of…
- Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the…
- Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work,…
- It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how…
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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