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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Firsts, Kind
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 07, 2013

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Finding Love, Kind
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.20, Random House

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami
Eye, Dark, Used
"Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Letting Go, Memories

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Haruki Murakami
Moments, Wanted, Most Wanted
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 23, 2012

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

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Accepting, Persons, Happened
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 30, 2014

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

Haruki Murakami
Distance, Might, Feels

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Book, Reading

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

Haruki Murakami
Upset, Ordinary, Ifs

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Hurt, Loss

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Silence, Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.148, Random House

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Haruki Murakami
Heart, What Matters, Lasts
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 23, 2014

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

Haruki Murakami
Romantic, True Love, Heart
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 10, 2016

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Romantic, Dream

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

Haruki Murakami
Looks, Enough, Happens
"After Dark". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

Haruki Murakami
Clothes, Dresses, Charm
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

There's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami
Life, War, Ends
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Haruki Murakami
Smell, Funeral, Dying

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Memories, Inspiration

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

Haruki Murakami
Ruined

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami
Heart, Reality, Sea
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.24, Random House

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Haruki Murakami
Who We Are, Colorless, Loses

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Writing, Night
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 25, 2014

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Haruki Murakami
Lying, People, Firsts

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Haruki Murakami
Kind, Twisted, Drowning

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