Haruki Murakami Quotes - Page 24

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• I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

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  Attitude, Distance, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 17, 2011

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• I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

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  Feelings, Quiet, Stills

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.114, Random House

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• It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

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  Kindness, World, Serious

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• The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

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  Imagination, Justify

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• When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

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  Heart, Breathing, Way

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• Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

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  Running, Live Life, Endurance

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

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• Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.

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  Hands, People, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 20, 2015

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• The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

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  Night, Strikes, Worst

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• My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

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  Hero, People, Special

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• I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

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  Running, Dream, Morning

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

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  Two, People, Missing

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• I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

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  Long Distance Relationship, Farewell, Knowing

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• Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

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  Real, Air, Hands

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• Life: I'll never understand it.

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• As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

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  Moving, Numbness, Long

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• Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.

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  Memories, Use, Body

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.175, Random House

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• I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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• Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

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  Music, Winter, Mind

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• Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.

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  Race, Order, Goal

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.131, Random House

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• For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

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  Running, Distance, Mean

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 03, 2015

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• One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.

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  Order, Next, Changed

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.106, Random House

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• If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

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  Thinking, Limits, Unfair

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.266, Random House

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• The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

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  Memories, Heart, Gleam

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

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• It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

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  Light, Small Rooms, Film

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• let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

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  Wind, Littles, Cry

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