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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
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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.
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It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
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Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.
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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be. Everyone has their shortcomings.
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