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Haruki Murakami Quotes: As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
         

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.


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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.



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I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.



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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?



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The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.



When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.



When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.



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More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.



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As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.




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