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Haruki Murakami

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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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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
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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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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
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Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
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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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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?
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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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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 unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.
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If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
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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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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
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There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say two, tell her you like what she's wearing and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.
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Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
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What's nurtured slowly grows well.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
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Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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