Haruki Murakami quotes - page 10

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. (Haruki Murakami)
Our responsibility begins with our imagination. View quote
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Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. View quote
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. View quote
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Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime. View quote
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I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me. View quote
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It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. View quote
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That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. View quote
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw. View quote
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. View quote
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. (Haruki Murakami)
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? View quote
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It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride. View quote
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An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. View quote
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. View quote
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All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well. View quote
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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish. View quote
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless. View quote
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He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. View quote
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Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match. View quote
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What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, "It's all your fault! (Haruki Murakami)
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on. View quote
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. View quote
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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole. View quote
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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. View quote
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