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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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Murakami Haruki
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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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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He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
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A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
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Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
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