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Author: Haruki Murakami
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  1. Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood

    Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me."I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me."Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure."People are strange when you're a stranger.
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ After the Quake

    I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. {from Super-frog Saves Tokyo}
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    Whether by chance conjunction or not, the "wind-up bird" was a powerful presence in Cinnamon's story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin. The will of human beings meant nothing, then, as the veterinarian always seemed to feel. People were no more than dolls set on tabletops, the springs in their backs wound up tight, dolls set to move in ways they could not choose, moving in directions they could not choose. Nearly all within range of the wind-up bird's cry were ruined, lost. Most of them died, plunging over the edge of the table.
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    * كل من يعشق يكون في بحث عن أجزائه المفقودة من نفسه. ولهذا يحزن العاشق عندما يفكر في معشوقته.تماما كعودتك الى غرفة عشت فيها ذكريات عزيزة عليك،وأم ترها منذ فترة طويله. انه مجرد شعور طبيعي.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood

    I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood

    I miss you something awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the

    I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there. Adrift on the open sea....A tiny boat cut loose from the fiction of the ship.
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  10. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?
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  11. Haruki Murakami _ What I Talk About When I Talk

    But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.
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  12. Haruki Murakami _ Pinball, 1973

    An old cat is a good friend to talk to.
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