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Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

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
Trials
Wherever
Hope
Trial

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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.
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Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.
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I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
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The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.
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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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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
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A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.
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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
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It's not me but the world that's deranged.
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I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.
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But still, Ayumi said, it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. You may be right, Aomame said, But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
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When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.
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Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
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There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
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It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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