Haruki Murakami Quotes - Page 40

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• I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

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  Giving, Use, Care

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.468, Random House

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• The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

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  Cat, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2015

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• I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person

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  Eye, Night, Who I Am

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• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

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  Fall, Optimistic, Expectations

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• Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

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  Rain, Wind, Smell

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.307, Random House

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• I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

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  Dream, Real, Night

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• I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

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  Eternal

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.59, Random House

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

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  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

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• You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

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  Different, Entering, Phases

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• It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

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  Book, Way

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• Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

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  Book, Mean, Logic

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• People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.

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  Air, Cells, Dust

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• What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

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  Math, Relax, Kind

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.55, Random House

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

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  Butterfly, Sight, Punctuation Marks

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

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  Hate, Book, Thinking

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• All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

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  Perfect, Imperfection, Imperfect

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• But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

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  Running, Japan, Might

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• I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

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  Land, World, Might

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

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  Heart, Past, Other Worlds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.267, Random House

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• I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

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  Thinking, Order, Years

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 05, 2014

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• Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

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  Cages, Ifs

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• This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

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  Two, Together, Different

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• They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?

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  Dream, People, Training

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.76, Random House

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• It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

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  Pain, Feelings, Alive

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.171, Random House

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