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Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.
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The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
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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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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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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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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
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Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.
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But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
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You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
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No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
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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 much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
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