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"I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via thatkindofwoman)(Source: aggravatedhooliganism, via thatkindofwoman)
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"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time."
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via sorakeem)(Source: quote-book, via sorakeem)
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"I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
- Haruki Murakami (via thatkindofwoman)(Source: moontravelers, via thatkindofwoman)
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"As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself."
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"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect."
- Haruki Murakami (via sorakeem)(Source: i-see-blue-stars, via sorakeem)
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"I don’t know, sometimes I think I’ve got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody."
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via larmoyante)(Source: larmoyante, via teaforonesvp)
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"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once."
- Haruki Murakami (via eastatlanta)(Source: middlenameconfused, via joyinthecity)
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"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of the Arabian nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
- Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via harusuisen)(via thenewyorkan)
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"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear."
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via human-voices)(Source: myquotelibrary, via human-voices)
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"There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being."
- Haruki Murakami (via quotedocument)(via quotedocument)
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"I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling."
- Haruki Murakami (via eastatlanta)(Source: goingonzo, via joyinthecity)
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"If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."
- Haruki Murakami (via ignify)(Source: pythons, via teaforonesvp)
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"I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world, I said after giving it some thought. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me."
-Haruki Murakami (via zealotry)
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