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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
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I didn't feel like I was in my own body my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
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I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.
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sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
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People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
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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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What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
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People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
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My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.
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But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life? Word games, I dismissed. Every army needs a flag.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.
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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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