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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

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Attitude, Distance, Book
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 17, 2011

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

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Goes On
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.147, Random House

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

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Real, Air, Hands

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

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Color, Musician, Sound

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

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Fall, Thinking, Problem

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

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Way, Pajamas, Life Is
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 15, 2016

When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

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Heart, Breathing, Way

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

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Running, Live Life, Endurance
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.

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Hands, People, Doubt
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 20, 2015

Life: I'll never understand it.

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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

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Hero, People, Special

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

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Running, Dream, Morning
"What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

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Two, People, Missing

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

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Long Distance Relationship, Farewell, Knowing

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

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Wind, Bird, Important
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1995.

Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

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Unique, Color, Personality

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

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Water, Drink, Motto
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.141, Random House

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

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Imagine, I Can, Nothingness
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.164, Random House

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

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Events, Might, Existentialism
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.272, Random House

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

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Angry At Someone, Tears, Cry

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

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Mean, Squares, Left

Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.

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Memories, Use, Body
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.175, Random House

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

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Moving, Numbness, Long

I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.

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Order, Focus, Balance
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 01, 2015

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

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Giving Up, Mean, Eye
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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