Haruki Murakami quotes - page 21

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most. (Haruki Murakami)
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know. View quote
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Wherever there's hope there's a trial. View quote
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Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? View quote
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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality! View quote
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One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end. View quote
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That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end. View quote
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. View quote
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. View quote
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A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait. View quote
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book. (Haruki Murakami)
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. View quote
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The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. View quote
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Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only. View quote
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When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood. View quote
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And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city. View quote
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ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays. View quote
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An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind..... Something incredibly important -.. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence. View quote
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It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day. View quote
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What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have. View quote
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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. (Haruki Murakami)
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur... bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first. View quote
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Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives. View quote
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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do. View quote
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I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had. View quote
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