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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.Haruki Murakami
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.Haruki Murakami
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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 talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.Haruki Murakami
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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 think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.Haruki Murakami
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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.Haruki Murakami
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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.Haruki Murakami
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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 up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.Haruki Murakami
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Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.Haruki Murakami
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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.Haruki Murakami
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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.Haruki Murakami
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.Haruki Murakami
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With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.Haruki Murakami
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In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.Haruki Murakami
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.Haruki Murakami
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Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.Haruki Murakami
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.Haruki Murakami
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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.Haruki Murakami
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I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die, ” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.Haruki Murakami
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It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.Haruki Murakami