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“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Sublime Quotes
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“Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Running Quotes
#Pain Quotes
#Essence Quotes
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“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Real Quotes
#People Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Running Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Life Quotes
#Memories Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
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“Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Running Quotes
#Skills Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Love Quotes
#Hungry Quotes
#Feds Quotes
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“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Heart Quotes
#Toxic Quotes
#Poison Quotes
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Inspirational Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Reading Quotes
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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Love Quotes
#Philosophical Quotes
#Care Quotes
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“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Life Quotes
#Ends Quotes
#Turns Quotes
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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Love Quotes
#Dream Quotes
#Stars Quotes
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“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Memories Quotes
#War Quotes
#Struggle Quotes
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“Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Summer Quotes
#Vacation Quotes
#Puppy Quotes
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“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.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Friendship Quotes
#Disappointment Quotes
#Loneliness Quotes
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“A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Sleep Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Two Quotes
#Important Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Cute Quotes
#Girl Quotes
#Real Quotes
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“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Lonely Quotes
#Ego Quotes
#Afternoon Quotes
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“Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Cancer Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Thinking Quotes
#Breathing Quotes
#Tree Quotes
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
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Haruki Murakami
#Life Quotes
#Sad Quotes
#Lonely Quotes
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“I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Lonely Quotes
#Body Quotes
#Feels Quotes
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“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”
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Haruki Murakami
#What If Quotes
#Important Quotes
#Forgotten Quotes
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“If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Writing Quotes
#Garden Quotes
#Stories Quotes
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“There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Feelings Quotes
#Special Quotes
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“Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Unique Quotes
#Color Quotes
#Shining Quotes
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“In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Running Quotes
#Distance Quotes
#Long Quotes
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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Love Quotes
#Life Quotes
#Hope Quotes
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“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
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Haruki Murakami
#Life Quotes
#War Quotes
#Ends Quotes
