Haruki Murakami quotes - page 19

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. (Haruki Murakami)
So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? View quote
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The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. View quote
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I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. View quote
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. View quote
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Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night. View quote
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I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life. View quote
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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better. View quote
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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. View quote
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. View quote
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Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside. (Haruki Murakami)
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever. View quote
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I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy. View quote
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There's no war that will end all wars. View quote
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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. View quote
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Only the Dead stay seventeen forever. View quote
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What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love. View quote
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What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. View quote
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It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. View quote
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. View quote
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal. (Haruki Murakami)
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself. View quote
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In the world we live in, what weand what weare like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. View quote
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over. View quote
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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. View quote
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