Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

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Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

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When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

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Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

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People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

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Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

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Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

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Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt�it never comes off.

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What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

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As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

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