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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.Haruki Murakami
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In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.Haruki Murakami
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With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.Haruki Murakami
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The music world is where child prodigies go to die.Haruki Murakami
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With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.Haruki Murakami
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.Haruki Murakami
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.Haruki Murakami
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He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.Haruki Murakami
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It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.Haruki Murakami
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Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.Haruki Murakami
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.Haruki Murakami
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Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really lonelinessHaruki Murakami
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People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a whileHaruki Murakami
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Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there weren't any there.' I don't remember the actual lines, but it went something like that. Do you get what he means?Haruki Murakami
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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.Haruki Murakami
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Everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. The wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen. .Haruki Murakami
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comicalHaruki Murakami
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.Haruki Murakami
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If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.Haruki Murakami
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You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.Haruki Murakami
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There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food... If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.Haruki Murakami
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Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.Haruki Murakami
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It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbyeHaruki Murakami
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.Haruki Murakami