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Sputnik Sweetheart quotes

Haruki Murakami

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“Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“It was an impressive sight, something I wanted to clip out with scissors and pin to the wall of my memory. ” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Only a handful of writers—and I'm talking the most talented—are able to pull off the kind of irrational synthesis you find in dreams.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“the books that didn’t fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I’d never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my...” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why?” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself any more. It’s hard to put it into words, but I guess it’s as if I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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