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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist and translator, acclaimed for his surreal and imaginative storytelling. His works seamlessly blend elements of magical realism, pop culture, and deeply introspective themes. He has received numerous international awards and is considered one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. Here are 726 of his quotes:

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Haruki Murakami

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

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What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?

Haruki Murakami

I'm going to take you out of here... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

Haruki Murakami

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

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Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

Haruki Murakami

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Haruki Murakami

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

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Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

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If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you.

Haruki Murakami

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

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I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

Haruki Murakami

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Haruki Murakami

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

Haruki Murakami

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Haruki Murakami

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

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So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

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