February 2012
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dirty-ramona asked: I love your quotes.
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The winds of reality had not extinguished the flames in his heart.
- 1q84
January 2012
40 posts
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“Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given...”
– Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
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“Bright words make the eardrums vibrate brightly.”
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“I learned firsthand that it’s not easy making your way through this world.”
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“From the time I was little, I used to think that I didn’t belong in such a...”
– 1Q84
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“I’m a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”
dontthinktwicetisalright asked: which is your favourite book by Marakumi?I have read The wind up bird chronicle and The norwegian wood..would love to read more of his work.
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“A more pressing problem for me is that I have never been able to love anyone...”
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“It’s good to have something you want to do.”
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“I can think what I want as many times as I want. This could be the 72,001st...”
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The Moon
Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people’s fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its...
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“Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the...”
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“People grow up, and when they grow up they change.”
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“Trying to impose order on something where there had never been any was a waste...”
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“A person’s life may be a lonely thing by nature, but it is not isolated.
To...”
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“People need things like that to go on living—mental landscapes that have meaning...”
– 1Q84
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“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen.
One way to deal with...”
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“No one knows for certain what it means to die until they actually do it.”
– 1Q84
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“Some things can only be done in exchange for life.”
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“If you don’t believe in the world,
and if there is no love in it,
then...”
maria-amore asked: i simply love your quotes, always fascinates me :-)
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“He did not know if there was such a thing as a fair price for trouble.There must...”
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“Nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge.”
– Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
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“Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places....”
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“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil.”
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“You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.”
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“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often...”
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“In most cases, one pain is alleviated or canceled out by another pain. The...”
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“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
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“Male-female relationships don’t work by logic and reason.
Even monogamous...”
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“There are things in this world that are better left as unknowns.”
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“A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
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“Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns...”
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“I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone....”
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“Knowledge is a precious social asset.”
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“Unfortunately, however, sheer talent is not enough.
….Possessing an...”
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“He does not exist here, with me,
but flesh that does not exist will never die,...”
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“At my core, there is not nothing.
Neither is it a parched wasteland.
At my...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“Sensible people don’t go into avalanche country in avalanche season.”
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“It’s time for me to stop crying.
I’ll have to change my attitude again.
I’ll...”
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“This was reality.Whatever it might be, she could not pass reality by.”
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“The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you....”
– Haruki Murakami
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“Not even the tightest seat belt is going to do you any good if your plane...”
– Haruki Murakami
December 2011
23 posts
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“There’s a limit to what one person can do, even the most outstanding individual.”
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Time
Time could become deformed as it moved forward. Time itself was uniform in composition, but once consumed, it took on a deformed shape. One period of time might be terribly heavy and long, while another could be light and short. Occasionally the order of things could be reversed, and in the worst cases order itself could vanish entirely. Sometimes things that should not be there at all might be...
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“We are like a single family — but an extended family engaged in an endless...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“All I can do is live the life I have. I can’t trade it in for a new one....”
– Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
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“If…. we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead...”
– 1Q84
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“There is nothing tangible in this world you can’t buy if you pay enough.”
– 1Q84