Haruki Murakami quote: "To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all."

És com si en aquella època cada nit també mirés una lluna de gel a través d'un ull de bou. Una ...
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Desde el principio estuvimos unidos en la frontera entre la vida y la muerte.
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Aquel silencio recordaba todas las lluvias del mundo cayendo sobre la faz de la Tierra.
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A veces me siento como el portero de un museo. Un museo vacío, desierto, que ya nadie visita. Y yo ...
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Dentro de aquella casa con las persianas cerradas, sentí un odio profundo hacia la primavera. Odié...
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Quizás yo no soy muy inteligente. Pertenezco al pueblo. Pero ¿no es el pueblo el que hace funciona...
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–Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto...
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En este mundo hay gente que, a pesar de estar dotadas de un talento excepcional, son incapaces de re...
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En el mundo exterior la gente no suele hablar con franqueza, ¿no es cierto?
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Eso es lo que éramos el uno para el otro. Al morirse, ya no supe cómo relacionarme con la gente. D...
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Está exteriorizando sus emociones. Lo preocupante es cuando no logra sacarlas fuera. Se acumulan en...
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Había pensado tantas veces en ello que acabé distorsionando la noción del tiempo.
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Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little wor...
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I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No
mistake about it. Ice is co...
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointles...
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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a ...
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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where p...
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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...
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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of ni...
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Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming h...
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first on...
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The ...
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small a...
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is t...
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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, ...
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Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—whic...
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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
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here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn...
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this...
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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive...
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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 le...
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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on...
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لا أحد يحب العزلة. أنا فقط أكره الخيبة
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made...
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I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and si...
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It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have ...
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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
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She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings bui...
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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 thin...
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
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So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
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Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would t...
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I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my ...
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What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
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If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark
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I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I ...
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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
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Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.
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No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n...
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and...
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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep ...
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
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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 -- t...
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you her...
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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...
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Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...
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Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more...
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Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the...
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can...
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Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the ligh...
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love ...
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ...
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''Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandst...
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big
enough for different ...
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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 ...
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are t...
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We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on liv...
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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy ...
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That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.
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I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know ...
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent...
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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphys...
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Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
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My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some...
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If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you
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You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, thr...
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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different...
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For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and ...
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. ...
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Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try ...
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individua...
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They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. ...
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And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lone...
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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom...
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No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...
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Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by ...
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ...
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
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Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th...
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Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b...
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sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.
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Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ...
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Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
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Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people.
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We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ...
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If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
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Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q...
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte...
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Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr...
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When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus...
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We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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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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And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
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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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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

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