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Time passes slowly. Nobody sa...

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

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All of us are imperfect human...

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

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The moon had been observing t...

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.

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All imperfections are forced ...

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

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Having an object that symboli...

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

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You couldn’t begin to imagine...

You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

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It's just a feeling I have. W...

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

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In the spring of her twenty-s...

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

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Where the road sloped upward ...

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

What's really important here,...

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

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It's not right for one friend...

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

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Narratives have the same powe...

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

A girl doesn't always want to...

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

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In other words, let's face it...

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

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Each day the sun would rise a...

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

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Why do people have to build s...

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

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The curious thing about indiv...

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

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If there's any guy crazy enou...

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

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Symbolism and meaning are two...

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

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They put up with such strenuo...

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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