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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
Traveling
Companion
Compassion
Life

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That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
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Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.
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If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.
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I'm not so weird to me.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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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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What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
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I move, therefore I am.
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Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
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