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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
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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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Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
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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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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
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Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
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Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.
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Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.
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As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting out there was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
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There's no war that will end all wars.
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If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
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she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
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