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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

Haruki Murakami
Different, World, Shapes
"The Folklore of Our Times". www.newyorker.com. June 9, 2003.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Haruki Murakami
Helping, Metaphor
"Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. 2002.

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

Haruki Murakami
Lonely, Ego, Dawn

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Crazy, Fall
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 30, 2015

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

Haruki Murakami
People, Upset, Trying

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Haruki Murakami
Should, Acts Of Love, Convenience
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.384, Random House

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami
Gentleman, Doe, Want
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.72, Random House

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

Haruki Murakami
Two, People, Bird
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2010

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

Haruki Murakami
Clothes, People, Stuff
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.47, Random House

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami
Life, School, Important

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Home, Writing
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Order, Needs

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami
Broken, Promise, Doe
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 14, 2014

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Haruki Murakami
Knowledge, Confusion, World
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2013

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

Haruki Murakami
Heart, Pieces, Paper

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Haruki Murakami
Cutting, Reality, Imagination
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Relationship, Hurt

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

Haruki Murakami
World, End Of The World, Ends
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

Haruki Murakami
Beautiful, Girl, Summer
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 20, 2013

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Haruki Murakami
Curiosity, Irrepressible

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

Haruki Murakami
Inspiring, Rest In Peace, Morning
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 31, 2011

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

Haruki Murakami
Silly, Tiny, Kind

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

Haruki Murakami
Giving, Want, Able

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Battle, World
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 16, 2016

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Haruki Murakami
Religious, Men, Domestic Violence

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