Haruki Murakami quotes - page 2

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. (Haruki Murakami)
Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? View quote
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less. View quote
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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. View quote
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. View quote
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. View quote
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I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. View quote
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek. View quote
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The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? View quote
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And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. View quote
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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 little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value. (Haruki Murakami)
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. View quote
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. View quote
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Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off. View quote
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky. View quote
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‎Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. View quote
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People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. View quote
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In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount. View quote
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. View quote
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That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories. View quote
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person. (Haruki Murakami)
After all this, I won't start to hate you. View quote
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Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows - maybe even tomorrow. View quote
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I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself. View quote
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. View quote
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