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Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

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
Begins
Imagination
Responsibility

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Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
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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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If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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