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#1

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#2

“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: matters-of-the-heart

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#3

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

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#4

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: destiny

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#5

“Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: anger, cry

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#6

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#7

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: ties-with-someone

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#8

“...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: listening, thinking

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#9

“I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.”
― haruki murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

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#10

“Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#11

“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#12

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"

"It's a distance that can't be measured."

"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#13

“If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#14

“If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#15

“I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: death, reality

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#16

“Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#17

“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, life

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#18

“And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#19

“I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#20

“Some things can't be solved just by going wild every now and then.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: going-wild

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#21

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: wounds-to-the-heart

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#22

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#23

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

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#24

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: inspirational, love

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#25

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories

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#26

“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.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: depressing

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#27

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

tags: death, life

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#28

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#29

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#30

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: compensation, searching, seeking

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