Toru Watanabe Quotes

• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Friendship, Lonely, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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• Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Faces, Inches, Ten

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.172, Random House

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Disappointment, Loneliness

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

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• But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, Two, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 30, 2015

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

  Haruki Murakami

  Care, Norwegian Wood, Terrible

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 05, 2014

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• Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Forever, Norwegian Wood, Seventeen

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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