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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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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.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

The curious thing about indiv...

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

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

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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I hate requests. They make me...

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

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I can never say what I want t...

I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

She gave me this look – she m...

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

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Hundreds of butterflies flitt...

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

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It seemed to me that this wor...

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

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Like a Chinese box, the world...

Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

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Of course you keep telling yo...

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.

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A person's last moments are a...

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

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You have to make an effort to...

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

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I’m just kinda tired. Like a ...

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

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You know what it’s like when ...

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

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My grandpa always said asking...

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

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Like it or not, it's the soci...

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

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But I didn't walk a single st...

But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

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It takes years to build up, i...

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

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There’s nothing wrong with no...

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

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