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In dreams begins responsiblities.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

Haruki Murakami
Dream

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

Haruki Murakami
Book, Writing, Long

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Haruki Murakami
Cake, Ideas, Long

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

Haruki Murakami
Tired, Simple, I Love Myself
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.434, Random House

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Haruki Murakami
Sunday, Sight, Way

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

Haruki Murakami
Fall, World, Littles
Haruki Murakami (2017). “Men Without Women: Stories”, p.164, Knopf

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Haruki Murakami
Eye, Fate, Play
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami
Kindness, Believe, Caring
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Haruki Murakami
Hurt, Damage, Humans
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 14, 2012

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Past, Should

The world is an inherently unfair place.

Haruki Murakami
World, Unfair

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

Haruki Murakami
Strong, Thinking, Wind

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Together, Grows
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Haruki Murakami
Thinking, Pointless
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.364, Random House

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

Haruki Murakami
Demand, Made

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami
Inspiring, Dream, Thinking
"The Power of Powerball: Why Dreaming Is Priceless" by Angie Sarhan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2016.

I'm not so weird to me.

Haruki Murakami
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

Haruki Murakami
Sky, Castles, Coats
"South of the Border, West of the Sun". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1992.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

Haruki Murakami
Happened, Ifs

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Haruki Murakami
Love Is, Labyrinth, Wonderful

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

Haruki Murakami
Exertion, Persons, Meaningless

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Haruki Murakami
Real, Eye, Quake
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.100, Random House

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Haruki Murakami
Gun, Bleeding, Shots
"Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1999.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Haruki Murakami
Fate, Stranger, Seems

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

Haruki Murakami
Years, Months, Impossible
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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