Haruki Murakami quotes - page 6

I think most people live in fiction... That's how you keep your fragile body intact. (Haruki Murakami)
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody. View quote
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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. View quote
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can. View quote
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Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil-they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box. View quote
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it. View quote
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Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. View quote
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[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter. View quote
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) View quote
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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still. View quote
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You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is. (Haruki Murakami)
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object. View quote
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library. View quote
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What's more, you're loads better than you think you are.” "So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. "That's because you're only half-living.” she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere. View quote
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likewesaid, we'lldowhatwecan. Trytoreconnectyou, towhatyouwant,"" said the Sheep Man. ""Butwecan'tdoit-alone. Yougottaworktoo. Sittingsnotgonnadoit, thinking'snotgonnadoit."" ""So what do I have to do?"" ""Dance,"" said the Sheep Man. ""Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, ok? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop. View quote
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. View quote
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You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-your self. You must believe in your powers. View quote
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. View quote
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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it? View quote
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right. View quote
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The ‘hurt' part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself. (Haruki Murakami)
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. View quote
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Deep rivers run quiet. View quote
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One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year. View quote
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The world is an inherently unfair place. View quote
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