Haruki Murakami quotes - page 3

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. (Haruki Murakami)
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.
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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
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As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
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Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.
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Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
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In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
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I'm not so weird to me. (Haruki Murakami)
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
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I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
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Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world. (Haruki Murakami)
I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.
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How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
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What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
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It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.
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