Haruki Murakami Quotes

“Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know.”

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“You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.”

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“So after he died, I didn't know how to relate to other people. I didn't know what it means to love another person.”

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“What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?”

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“There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.”

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“Such perfect little circles are impossible to maintain.”

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“I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.”

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“What had happened to the body I held in my arms that night last spring?”

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“No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.”

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“I miss you something awful sometimes”

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“It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.”

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

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“Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.”

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“I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and then they bitch.”

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“Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.”

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“One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me.”

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“I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move." "Because of her?" I nodded.”

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“No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.”

“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.”

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“Si leyera lo mismo que los demás, acabaría pensando como ellos.”

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“(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”) I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.”

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“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

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“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene I hardly paid it any attention. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression.”

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions.”

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“...thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.”

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“It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.”

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“It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

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“I'll never forget you," I said. "I could never forget you.”

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“She and I had needed each other more than either of us knew.”

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“Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things.”

“You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like so much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK.' Life is a box of cookies.”

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“I miss her every now and then, but finally, she didn't move me. I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it.”

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“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.”

“You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.”

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“I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit,...”

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“...he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”

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“That meadow scene is the first thing that comes back to me. The smell of grass, the faint chill of the wind, the line of the hills, the barking of a dog: these are the first things, and they come with absolute clarity. I feel as if I can reach out and trace them with a fingertip. And yet, as clear as the scene may be, no one is in it.”

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“...and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust. Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is bound to take us, I had felt, but until the day it reaches out for us, it leaves us alone. This had seemed to me the simple, logical truth. Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.”

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“In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

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“I know these things. I'm always right. It's got nothing to do with logic: I just feel it. For example, when I'm really close to you like this, I'm not the least bit scared. Nothing dark or evil could ever tempt me.”

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“But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life”

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“If you need me, use me. Don't you see?”

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“Everybody feels like that to some extent," I said. "They're trying to express themselves and it bothers them when they can't get it right.”

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

“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough”

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“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny and silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

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“The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older. It’s true. So think about it carefully.”

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“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail.”

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