Haruki Murakami quotes - page 15

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut. (Haruki Murakami)

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry-at someone else or at herself-which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

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I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

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Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

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In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

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Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

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A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

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You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath. (Haruki Murakami)

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

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I don't know, I don't feel right unless I've got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

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When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

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You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

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Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

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Chance encounters are what keep us going.

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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. (Haruki Murakami)

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

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Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

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I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

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Haruki Murakami

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Occupation: Japanese Writer
Born: January 12, 1949
Quotes count: 726
Wikipedia: Haruki Murakami

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