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The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

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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
Thing
Good
Awake
Dream
Book
Writing

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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
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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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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
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In dreams begins responsiblities.
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Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.
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Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Everything in life is a metaphor.
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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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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Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
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Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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