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  1. 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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  2. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    We're human, after all, and everybody's got something a little off somewhere.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I'm terrible at finding the right words for things. I'm sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    You can't keep counting forever
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    SO THAT'S MY LIFE-or my life before I stopped sleeping-each day pretty much a repetition of the one before. I used to keep a diary, but if I forgot for two or three days, I'd lose track of what had happened on which day. Yesterday could have been the day before yesterday, or vice versa. I'd sometimes wonder what kind of life this was. Which is not to say that I found it empty. I was-very simply-amazed. At the lack of demarcation between the days. At the fact that I was part of such a life, a life that had swallowed me up so completely. At the fact that my demarcation between the days. At the fact that I was part of such a life, a life that had swallowed me up so completely.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    Actually, I'm extremely dissatisfied with being who I am. It's nothing to do with my looks or abilities or status or any of that. It simply has to do with being me. The situation strikes me as grossly unfair.
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
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  10. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it?
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  11. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    Okay, let's put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it's alright if I don't sleep with you. What I'm saying is I'd like to be as fair as possible. I don't want to force anything on anybody, any more than I'd want anything forced on me. It's enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
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  12. Haruki Murakami _ The Elephant Vanishes

    The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.
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