"Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart."
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Haruki Murakami quotes (page 26 of 55)
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"We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze."
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"Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do."
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"I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too."
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"What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have"
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"Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free."
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"I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured."
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"In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life."
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"It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."
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"Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me."
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"Life is like a box of cookies."
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"Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope."
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"I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way."
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"Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life."
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"Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing."
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"I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon."
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"Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!"
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"On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth."
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"Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more."
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"I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself."
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