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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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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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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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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty being me.
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
In any case, though, I believe that I have no been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply. In doing so, however, I have led myself around in circles and hurt myself just as deeply. I say this not as an excuse or means of self-justification but because it's true. If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound, but mine as well. So please try not to hate me. I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize. Which is precisely why I do not want you to hate me. Because if you were to do that I would really go to pieces. I can't do what you can do: I can't slip inside my shell and wait for things to pass. I don't know for a fact that you are really like that, but sometimes you give me that impression. I often envy that in you, which may be why I led you around in circles so much.
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
قلتُ: لعلكِ لم تفهميني. لا تتعلق المسألة بـ"ماذا بعد؟". يتولَّه بعض الناس بقراءة جداول القطارات، وهذا ما يفعلونه طوال الوقت. بعض الناس يصنع نماذج قوارب من أعواد الثقاب. فما الخطأ إذا كان هناك شاب واحد في العالم يجد متعته الكبرى في محاولة فهمِك؟
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
{...} he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years."That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
كان قارئا أكثر نهمًا مني بكثير، لكنه اتخذ له قاعدة في أن لا يمس كتابا لأي مؤلف لم يمت قبل ثلاثين سنة. قال: "ذلك هو النوع الوحيد من الكتب الذي أستطيع أن أثق به". وأضاف: "هذا لا يعني أنني لا أؤمن بالأدب الحديث، لكنني لا أريد تضييع الوقت الثمين بقراءة كتاب لم يُعَمِّده الزمن. الحياة قصيرة جدا".
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Toru: What happens when people open their hearts?Reiko: They get better.
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