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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.
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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.
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When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
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When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
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It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
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But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
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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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There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
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People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
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So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
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Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?
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