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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Quotes by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning."
"I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."
"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."
"In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene."
"I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once."
"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
"I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."