Daily Haruki Murakami

in my running era, thanks to Murakami-san

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"I followed the line where the sky met the water from end to end. No human being could draw a line so beautiful, whatever ruler they might use. Below that long, straight line, countless lives were thriving. The world was filled with so many lives, and just as many deaths."

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Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I’m convinced, it’s already too late.
—H. Murakami

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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
— H. Murakami

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By running longer it’s like I can physically exhaust that portion of my discontent. It also makes me realize again how weak I am, how limited my abilities are. I become aware, physically, of these low
points.
— H. Murakami

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"For now all I can do is put off
making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are."
—H. Murakami

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The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely
accept that vast expanse and drink it in.

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What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue. On cold days I guess I think a little about how cold it is. And about the heat on hot days. When I’m sad I think a little about sadness. When I’m happy I think a little about happiness.

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The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky as always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

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The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky as always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

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".. I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone."

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"What’s crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you’ve set for yourself. Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always come up with a reasonable explanation, but you can’t fool yourself."

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Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of
these memories has led to one result: me. Me here and now, on the north shore of Kauai.

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No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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"One by one, I’ll
face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each
stride forward, but at the same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long-distance runner."
— H. Murakami

I'm back!

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I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary—or perhaps more like mediocre—level. But that’s not the point. The point
is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
-WITAWITAR

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Indeed

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The death of a dream can be, in a way, sadder than that of a living being.
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