"It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy pride."
Haruki Murakami

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"To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That’s my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body."
Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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"I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void."
Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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"What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I’m sure I’ll never see it again."
Haruki Murakami - “All God’s Children Can Dance”
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"I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world."
Haruki Murakami
(Source : theparisreview.org)
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"The lead gray of the sky mixed ever so slowly with black, finally blending into night. Just another quality of melancholy. As if there were only two colors in the world, gray and black, shifting back and forth at regular intervals."
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
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"Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
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"From the pigeons’ point of view, probably it was I who looked mindless."
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
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"Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
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