Haruki Murakami Quotes - Page 6

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• Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Past, Should

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• You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

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  Judging, World, Like You

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• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

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  Eye, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

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• Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

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  Life, Tools, Ability

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• All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

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  Cake, Ideas, Long

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• Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

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  Sunday, Sight, Way

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• But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

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  Hurt, Damage, Humans

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 14, 2012

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• Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

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  Kindness, Believe, Caring

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

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• In dreams begins responsiblities.

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  Dream

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• The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

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  Mean, World, Way

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• My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

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  Strong, Thinking, Wind

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• She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

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  Demand, Made

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• I'm not so weird to me.

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  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

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  Real, People, World

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• I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

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  Lonely, Disappointment, Loneliness

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.68, Random House

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• So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

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  Running, Hurt, Inspirational Life

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• Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

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  Exertion, Persons, Meaningless

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• Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

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  Love Is, Labyrinth, Wonderful

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• To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

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  Book, Writing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

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• One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

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  Years, Months, Impossible

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

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• What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

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  Real, Eye, Quake

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.100, Random House

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• Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

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  Fate, Stranger, Seems

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• My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

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  Animal, Imagination, Alive

  "Haruki Murakami: 'My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well'" by Marta Bausells, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2014.

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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  Thinking, Twists, Stories

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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• I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

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  Running, Together, Grows

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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