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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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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He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.
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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.
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Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.
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Only the dead stay seventeen forever.
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I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
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