Haruki Murakami quotes - page 26

No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives. (Haruki Murakami)
I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside. View quote
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We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish. View quote
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Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it. View quote
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Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed. View quote
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The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it. View quote
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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize. View quote
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The right words always seemed to come too late. View quote
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The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. View quote
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People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile. View quote
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes. (Haruki Murakami)
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. View quote
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection. View quote
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Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. View quote
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Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. View quote
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The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily. View quote
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We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we're surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people. View quote
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I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more. View quote
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura. View quote
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I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void. View quote
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She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She'd never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn't a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her. (Haruki Murakami)
I'm not very good at giving anyone a clear no. View quote
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And you'll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it. View quote
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At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning. View quote
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I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. View quote
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