And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.'
I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked.
O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.


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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
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I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...
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All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...
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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
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I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
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I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
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Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
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sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
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Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
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Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
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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 t...
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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
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I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
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Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
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But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
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The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
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I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
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Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
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No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
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For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
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I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked...
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh...
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#...
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You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...
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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ...
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi...
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From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight...
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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
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Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
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He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
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The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth...
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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
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The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
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The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ...
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They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n...
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even...
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Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo...
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee...
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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
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Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.

W...
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We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died...
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;...
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Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ...
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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear...
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People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
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Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...
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I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or...
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He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,...
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Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ...
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,...
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