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Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
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All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.
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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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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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Only the dead stay seventeen forever.
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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be. Everyone has their shortcomings.
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
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Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you
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It's just like sex when [a book is] finished, it's finished.
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