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Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.


Ryū Murakami

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HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q...
HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...
HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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