Haruki Murakami Quotes - Page 17

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• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

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  Names, Giving, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

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  Unique, Color, Personality

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• That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

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  Dark, Feelings, Mind

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• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

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  Heart, Toxic, Poison

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• The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

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  Love Life, Evil, Justice

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

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  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

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• Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.

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  Distance, Eye, Math

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• What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

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  Lost

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

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  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

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  Girl, Book, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.24, Random House

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• And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

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  Sleep, Reality, Long

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• ...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

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  Thinking, People, Brain

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.118, Random House

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• Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

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  Heart, Evil, May

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 28, 2015

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• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

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  Fall, Light, Color

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• What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

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  Giving Up, Cat, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2011

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• She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

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  Personal Opinions, Talking, People

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• I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

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  Mind, Important, Routine

  "Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. 2004.

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• After all this, I won't start to hate you.

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  Hate, Hate You

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.70, Random House

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• Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

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• I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

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  Hurt, Want, Few Friends

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

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  Soccer, Lonely, Couple

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• Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness

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  Memories, Heart, Light

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• The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

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  Dream, Morning, Real

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• When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

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  Book, Breathing, Smell

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2014

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