"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."

Metaphor, Disappearance, Parallel, Movement, Escape

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"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."

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"Poison is like the drowned, it always floats."

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"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."

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"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."

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Explore more quotes by Haruki Murakami

"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."

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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."

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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

Wisdom

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Thought

"How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get this feeling like some kind of little something-or-other is there, somewhere inside me... like a burglar is in the house, hiding in a wardrobe... and it comes out every once in a while and messes up whatever order or logic I've established for myself. The way a magnet can make a machine go crazy."

Psychology

"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?"

Failure

"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

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"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells."

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"I miss you something awful sometimes."

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