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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

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
Compassion
Life
Traveling
Companion

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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
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For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a Reserved sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
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Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.
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The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.
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So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
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Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
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But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
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Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.
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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
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I wonder what ants do on rainy days?
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I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.
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ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.
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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
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