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Book: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
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  1. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    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.
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?"
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    These days I just can't seem to say what I mean {...}. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. "
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
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  10. Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:

    Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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