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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. ~ Haruki Murakami
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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world. ~ Haruki Murakami
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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 clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself. ~ Haruki Murakami
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. ~ Haruki Murakami
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747s always reminded me of a fat, ugly old lady in the neighborhood where I used to live. Huge sagging breasts, swollen legs, dried-up neckline. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday. ~ Haruki Murakami
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You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a spirit of amazing loftiness and an irredeemable man of the gutter. He could charge forward, the optimistic leader, even as his heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. He lived in his own special hell. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?"
"No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days," Komatsu said. "Wouldn't it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table? ~ Haruki Murakami
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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself. ~ Haruki Murakami
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She smiles and looks at us, he told himself, but she doesn't see anything. She's looking at us, but she's seeing something else. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Time does not expand."
"But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up."
"That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. The sum total of time doesn't change. It's only that you can see more movies. ~ Haruki Murakami
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The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I find the act of writing very painful. I can go a whole month without managing a single line, or write three days and nights straight, only to find the whole thing has missed the mark.
At the same time, though, I love writing. Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I think Kitaru is honestly seeking something. In his own way, at his own pace, very genuinely and directly. It's just that I don't think he's grasped yet what it is. That's why he can't make any progress, and that applies to all kinds of things. If you don't know what you're looking for, it's not easy to look for it. ~ Haruki Murakami
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The girl was rotten inside. Peel off a layer of that beautiful skin, and you'd find nothing but rotten flesh. ~ Haruki Murakami
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They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around - the thing gets more and more like its name. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's
not. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. ~ Haruki Murakami
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The weather service reported that there weren't any atmospheric conditions present that might have led to fish raining from the sky. ~ Haruki Murakami
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It was hard to accept that she had almost no feelings, maybe
none at all, for me as a man. This hurt so bad at times it felt like
someone was gouging out my guts with a knife. Still, the time I
spent with her was more precious than anything. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I'd date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn't what I want. ~ Haruki Murakami
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What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I ~ Haruki Murakami
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I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it. ~ Sarah Kay
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Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Any religion that would prohibit life-saving surgery simply because it goes against the literal word of the Bible cane nothing other than a cult. This is an abuse of dogma that crosses the line. ~ Haruki Murakami
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In dreams begins responsiblities. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one? ~ Haruki Murakami
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Just as a river flows to the sea, growing older and slowing down are just part of the natural scenery, and I've got to accept it. It might not be a very natural process and what I discover as a result might not be all that pleasant. But what choice do I have, anyway? In my own way, I've enjoyed my life so far, even if I can't say I've fully enjoyed it. ~ Haruki Murakami
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The rails intersect and combine in complex and convoluted ways. There are sixteen platforms in total. In addition, there are two private rail lines, the Odakyu line and the Keio line, and three subway lines plugged in, as it were, from the side. It is a total maze. During rush hour, that maze transforms into a sea of humanity, a sea that foams up, rages, and roars as it surges toward the entrances and exits. Streams of people changing trains become entangled, giving rise to dangerous, swirling whirlpools. No prophet, no matter how righteous, could part that fierce, turbulent sea. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Everything just blows me away. ~ Haruki Murakami
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The spring on a wound watch gets steadily looser, the torque grows closer and closer to zero, until he gears stop altogether and the hands come to rest at a set position. Silence descends. Isn't that all it is? ~ Haruki Murakami
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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling. ~ Haruki Murakami
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No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said.
So hold me. Now. Right here. ~ Haruki Murakami
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If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality! ~ Haruki Murakami
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It had been a long time since I felt the fragrance of summer: the scent of the ocean, a distant train whistle, the touch of a girl's skin, the lemony perfume of her hair, the evening wind, faint glimmers of hope, summer dreams.
But none of these were the way they once had been; they were all somehow off, as if copied with tracing paper that kept slipping out of place."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing ~ Haruki Murakami
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look at the painting and listen to the wind ~ Haruki Murakami
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone. ~ Haruki Murakami
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I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot. ~ Haruki Murakami
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It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never get tired of it, no matter how many times I read it. It's the kind of a novel that nourishes you as you read, and every time I do, I'm struck by something new, and experience a fresh reaction to it. I find it how such a young writer, only twenty-nine at the time could grasp
so insightfully, so equitably, and so warmly
the realities of life. How was that possible? The more I think about it, and the more I read the novel, the more mysterious it all is. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But 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 have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right? ~ Haruki Murakami
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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 come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it? ~ Haruki Murakami
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She was the type to keep riding the train the wrong way around. ~ Haruki Murakami
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Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked ~ Haruki Murakami
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You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me. ~ Haruki Murakami
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