Haruki Murakami quotes - page 13

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. (Haruki Murakami)
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn't last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back. View quote
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When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. View quote
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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. View quote
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What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back. View quote
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Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful. View quote
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When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. View quote
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The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. View quote
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Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other. View quote
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever-something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen. View quote
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Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. (Haruki Murakami)
It doesn't matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I'll always discover something new about myself. View quote
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I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything. View quote
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. View quote
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. View quote
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But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else. View quote
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Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars. View quote
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It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously. View quote
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Listen up-there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that. View quote
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Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert. View quote
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. (Haruki Murakami)
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. View quote
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Have books ‘happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you. View quote
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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. View quote
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Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart. View quote
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