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Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Haruki Murakami
Artist

I don’t know what it means to live.

Haruki Murakami
Mean, Knows

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

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Circles, Darkness, Tails
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.56, Random House

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

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Reason, Middle, Efficient

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

Haruki Murakami
Reading, Average, Average Person

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Haruki Murakami
Book, Four, Stills

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

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States, Persons, Aomame
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.146, Random House

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Three, Marathon
"Marathon man". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2003.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

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Dream, Dolphins, Hotel

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

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Morning, Paragraph, Items
"A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

Nature is actually unnatural

Haruki Murakami
Unnatural

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

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Smell, Alive, Variety
"1Q84". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 16, 2010.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

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Important, Lasts, Moments

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Haruki Murakami
Ends, Stills, Dies

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Haruki Murakami
Might, Wells
Haruki Murakami (1987). “風の歌を聴け”

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

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Would Be, World, Dull
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.157, Random House

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Haruki Murakami
Sleep, Insomnia, People
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.410, Random House

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

Haruki Murakami
Civilization, People, Fence

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Stupid, Car

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

Haruki Murakami
Mediocrity, Shirts, Spots

Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

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Lonely, Loneliness, Sputnik
"Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1999.

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami
Time, Heart, Tunes
"Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami, (Ch. 23), 2002.

Is it against the law for me to know it?

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Law, Knows

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Haruki Murakami
Compassion, Companion
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.22, Random House

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Depends

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