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Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get t...
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. ...
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the r...
“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful...
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but fr...
“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating....
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”
“But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us painbecausethey remain.”
“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it would...
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be s...
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. B...
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
“Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears we...
“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seem...
“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afrai...
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousand...
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest en...
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure...
“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams ther...
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do any...
“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like...
“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from...
“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come an...
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decr...
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the t...
“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.”
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of...
“Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. ”
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That w...
“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Getup!”
“In dreams begins responsiblities.”
“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness wit...
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be,...
