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She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

Haruki Murakami
Expression, Scary, Feelings
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Haruki Murakami
Cancer, Whole Life, Persons

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

Haruki Murakami
Voice, Easier, Active

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

Haruki Murakami
Body, Bones, Absence

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Haruki Murakami
Long, Lasts, Disappear

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Haruki Murakami
All Things, Happens, Things Happen
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Distance, Might

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

Haruki Murakami
Fire, Feelings, Wake Up
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 28, 2015

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

Haruki Murakami
Flow, Lost

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Haruki Murakami
Sublime
"A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami, December 31, 1989.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Haruki Murakami
Born, Circumstances, Comfortable

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

Haruki Murakami
Blood, Doe, Target

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Haruki Murakami
Pay The Price, Want, Willing
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.18, Random House

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, People, Realizing
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

Haruki Murakami
Responsibility, Imagination

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Haruki Murakami
Acceptance, Winning, Lanes

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Paper, Toilets
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

Haruki Murakami
World, Do You Love Me, Enough

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

Haruki Murakami
Sky, Cloudy Skies, Feels

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Encounters, Chance
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Trying, Venture

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Haruki Murakami
Moon, Reality, World
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 24, 2014

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

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

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Past, Shapes

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Haruki Murakami
Fall, Reality, Sound

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