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You are a beautiful person, Do...

You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.'--Nimit in 'Thailand

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What we see before us is just ...

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

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A regular wind-up toy world th...

A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

A certain type of perfection c...

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

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I'm kind of a low-key guy. The...

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

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People want to be bowled over ...

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

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They tell us that the only thi...

They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that.' he said. Then, a moment later, he added: 'Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

Things like that happen all th...

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

Don't you think it would be wo...

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

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Sometimes I feel like a careta...

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

Haruki Murakami 1117 quotes

When the fire goes out, you'll...

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

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People leave strange little me...

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

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I was reduced to pure concept....

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

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But I didn't understand then. ...

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

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Nothing in the real world is a...

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

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Not to excuse myself, but when...

Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.

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Don't pointless things have a ...

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

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Then when dusk began to settle...

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting 'out there' was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

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Better to be a first-class mat...

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

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The faintest gleam of their lo...

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

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