"You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring."
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Haruki Murakami quotes (page 27 of 55)
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"No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self."
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"I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
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"Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time."
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"Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light."
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"The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."
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"Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?"
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"She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things."
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"Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?"
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"People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream."
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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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"I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books."
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"You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right."
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"Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands."
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"This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon."
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"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."
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"The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless"
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"A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side."
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"Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind."
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"People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues."
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