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It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Pride, Healthy

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

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Trying, Venture

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Mistake, Sadness

"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Eggs, Novelists
"Always on the Side of the Egg". www.haaretz.com. February 17, 2009.

How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Winter, Moon

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

Haruki Murakami
Strength, Wall, Two Sides
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 27, 2012

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

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

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Wall, Hands

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Mean, Hands

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Screw Ups, Genius
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2014

I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Confused, Dark

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

Haruki Murakami
Wall, Wind, Tree

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