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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
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Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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University Teacher
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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It's not me but the world that's deranged.
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The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
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Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.
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What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
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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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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
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Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
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Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
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Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion
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The world is an inherently unfair place.
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If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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