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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only call up what anybody else is thinking."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods

"Memories warm you upwardly from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I recollect yous still love me, but nosotros can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. And so I'm non blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'chiliad non angry, either. I should be, but I'1000 non. I just experience hurting. A lot of hurting. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."
― Haruki Murakami, Southward of the Border, West of the Sun

"And once the storm is over, y'all won't remember how you made information technology through, how you managed to survive. You won't even exist sure, whether the storm is really over. Only one thing is certain. When y'all come out of the tempest, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this tempest's all about."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"If yous call back me, and then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Any it is you're seeking won't come up in the course y'all're expecting."
― Haruki Marukami

"What happens when people open up their hearts?"
"They get better."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Why exercise people have to exist this alone? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put hither but to nourish human loneliness?"
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Nobody likes beingness solitary that much. I don't go out of my mode to make friends, that's all. Information technology just leads to thwarting. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods

"Sometimes fate is like a pocket-sized sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You alter management but the sandstorm chases you lot. You plough again, but the tempest adjusts. Over and over you lot play this out, like some ominous dance with decease simply before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all y'all can exercise is give in to information technology, stride right within the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears then the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by stride. There'southward no sun at that place, no moon, no management, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that tearing, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, brand no mistake well-nigh it: information technology will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People volition bleed there, and y'all will bleed also. Hot, red blood. You'll grab that blood in your hands, your ain blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you lot won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is actually over. But one thing is sure. When you come out of the storm y'all won't be the aforementioned person who walked in. That'due south what this storm's all about."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"No affair how much suffering you went through, y'all never wanted to let become of those memories."
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"I dream. Sometimes I call back that's the only correct thing to do."
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Don't experience sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'thousand gazing at a distant star.
Information technology's dazzling, merely the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Peradventure the star doesn't even be any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, Due west of the Dominicus

"Anyone who falls in beloved is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. And so anyone who's in love gets deplorable when they think of their lover. Information technology'due south like stepping dorsum inside a room you accept fond memories of, one y'all haven't seen in a long time."
― Murakami, Haruki

"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you accept of happiness where you discover it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life fourth dimension, and if we let them get, nosotros regret information technology for the balance of our lives."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get dorsum. That'south part of what it means to exist alive. Merely inside our heads - at least that'southward where I imagine it - at that place'south a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our ain eye nosotros have to keep on making new reference cards. Nosotros have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, yous'll alive forever in your own private library."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I want you e'er to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to y'all here similar this?"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"But I didn't understand and then. That I could hurt somebody so desperately she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human existence beyond repair."
― Haruki Murakami

"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what information technology was similar to get my fill of it -- to exist fed so much love I couldn't take any more than. Just once. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods

"Silence, I discover, is something you can really hear."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going past. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
― Haruki Murakami, Trip the light fantastic toe Trip the light fantastic toe Trip the light fantastic toe

"Listen upward - there's no war that will end all wars."
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"If you tin love someone with your whole heart, fifty-fifty ane person, then at that place'southward salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

"I have this strange feeling that I'g non myself anymore. It'south hard to put into words, but I guess it's similar I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me dorsum together once again. That sort of feeling."
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for i human being to reach perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous fourth dimension and energy in serious efforts to know another person, just in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but practise we really know anything important about anyone?"
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Relate

"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest

"But even so, every now and so I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would experience like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at iv o'clock in the morning."
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Upwardly Bird Chronicle

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