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In dreams begins responsiblities.

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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By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run therefore I am.
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While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.
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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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This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.
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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
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You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
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I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
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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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Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
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Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.
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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music
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I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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Confidence as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read I loved to listen to music and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
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