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Letters are just pieces of paper, I said. Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
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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What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
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That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
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I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.
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If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
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What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
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The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
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Whoa! he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. Chicken salad a la George Orwell!
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
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I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.
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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.
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There's no war that will end all wars.
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Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.
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