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Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
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All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
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Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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What's nurtured slowly grows well.
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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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Everything just blows me away.
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She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.
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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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Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.
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You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.
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I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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