Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacement never goes well. It’s all very painful- as painful as actually being cut with a knife."
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"Once you pass a certain age, life becomes noting more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacement never goes well. It’s all very painful- as painful as actually being cut with a knife."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells"
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system"
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything"
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?"
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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