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Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

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

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

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