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“When you are used to the kind of life - of never getting anything you want - you stop knowing what it is you want.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Posted on February 25, 2012 via two cute dogs with 76 notes
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When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Curiosity’s like a friend you can’t really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own—with whatever guts you can muster.
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Posted on February 20, 2012 via hello, i am lianne. with 50 notes
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Haruki Murakami’s new non-fiction book “I Talked with Mr. Seiji Ozawa about Music” - interviews with classical music conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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Posted on February 11, 2012 via Haruki Murakami. with 48 notes
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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84Posted on December 18, 2011 via Haruki Murakami. with 181 notes
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It’s not that I’m trying to introduce into the story surrealistic things and situations that I became aware of. I’m just trying to portray things that are real to me, myself, a little more realistically. However, the harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal. To put it another way, by viewing it through an unreal lens, the world looks more real. That sort of thing happens quite frequently when I write a novel.
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“It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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Posted on December 9, 2011 via トニー滝谷 - Tony Takitani with 6 notes
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“The terror was in my bones. It was something I could never share with another person.”
— Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanPosted on November 25, 2011 via A girl who loves Japan. with 45 notes
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You have beautiful legs”, Tengo said.
“You like them?”
“You bet.”
“Thanks”, Aomame said.Aomame and Tengo (Like a Pea in a Pod - 1Q84) -
I can think what I want as many times I want. This could be the 72,001st time, but what’s wrong with that? As long as I am alive, I can think what I want, when I want, any way I want, as much as I want, and nobody can tell me any different.
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there is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person’s heart
1Q84 -
THE POOR GILYAKS
They have no courts, and they do not know the meaning of “justice”. How hard it is for them to understand us may be seen merely from the fact that up till the present day they still do not fully understand the purpose of roads. Even where a road has already been laid, they will still journey through the taiga. One often sees them, their families and their dogs, picking their way in Indian file across a quagmire right by the roadway.
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Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.
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The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost right and left.
1Q84 (via harukimurakami)Posted on October 23, 2011 via Haruki Murakami with 234 notes
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