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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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University Teacher
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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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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
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What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.
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The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
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This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
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What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
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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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As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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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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Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
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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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What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal.
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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
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