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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Haruki Murakami
Life, People, Want
Haruki Murakami (2014). “The Strange Library”, p.20, Knopf

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Life, Memories
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Quiet, These Days
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 06, 2016

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Destiny, Water
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2016

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami
Life, School, Important

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Haruki Murakami
Life, Sleep, Eye
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Reality, Promise

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Cat, Kids
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin, 1997.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Dream, Moving
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 23, 2015

I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Growing Up, Struggle

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