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Haruki Murakami Inspirational Quotes (567)

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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
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I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.
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Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.
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Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
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Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.
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I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
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There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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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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Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.
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I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
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You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.
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I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
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A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.
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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.
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We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
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What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
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