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Haruki Murakami

"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."

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"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."

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"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

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"When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it."

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"Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane."

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"If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever-something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen."

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"But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one."

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"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

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"In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. Maybe numbers of copies sold, awards won, and critics' praise serve as outward standards for accomplishment in literature, but none of them really matter. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always come up with a reasonable explanation, but you can't fool yourself. In this sense, writing novels and running full marathons are very much alike."

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"Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that."

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