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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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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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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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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
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As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
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What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal.
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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
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I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.
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It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. You can't fight it.
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