Haruki Murakami Short Quotes

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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

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Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.

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Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

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Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

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All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

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It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.

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When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

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Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

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Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

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Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings,

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Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

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If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

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What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

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One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

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Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

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I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

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This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn't a place for me.

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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

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