Haruki Murakami quotes - page 18

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there. (Haruki Murakami)
Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free? View quote
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Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. View quote
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Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. View quote
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I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words. View quote
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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern. View quote
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I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. View quote
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Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth. View quote
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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. View quote
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Artists are those who can evade the verbose. View quote
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I don't know what it means to live. (Haruki Murakami)
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. View quote
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. View quote
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But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. View quote
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At least he never walked. View quote
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The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats. View quote
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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. View quote
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The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living. View quote
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But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image. View quote
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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else. View quote
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You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's. (Haruki Murakami)
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. View quote
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The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor. View quote
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Everything just blows me away. View quote
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Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]. View quote
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