Haruki Murakami quotes - page 16

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me. (Haruki Murakami)
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes. View quote
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Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on. View quote
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This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn't a place for me. View quote
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Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. View quote
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Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about. View quote
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I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. View quote
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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. View quote
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. View quote
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. View quote
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them. (Haruki Murakami)
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. View quote
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. View quote
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. View quote
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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too. View quote
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We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. View quote
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present. View quote
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Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard. View quote
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize? View quote
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. View quote
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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured. (Haruki Murakami)
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. View quote
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I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight. View quote
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It's precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive-or at least a partial sense of it. View quote
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Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents. View quote
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