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Norwegian Wood quotes

Haruki Murakami

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“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“When it's raining like this . . . it feels as if we're the only ones in the world.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I didn't know what it meant to love another person.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What makes us most normal . . . is knowing that we're not normal.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“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.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Only the dead stay 17 for ever.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the empty cavern.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“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.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I'm not going to die with you just because you made lunch for me. Of course, if it had been dinner.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go somewhere where you don't know a soul?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature . . . but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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