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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
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I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.
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The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.
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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
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it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
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Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? “No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well.
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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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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 think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
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How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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