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Norwegian Wood (Vintage International)

Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin

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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start—the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

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It never occurred to anyone to sweep up and throw these things in a wastebasket.

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The thought struck me that society needed a few people—just a few—who were interested in and even passionate about map making.

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Naoko would bring a classmate for me and the four of us would go to the zoo or the pool or a movie. The girls she brought were always pretty, but a little too refined for my taste. I got along better with the somewhat cruder girls from my own public high school who were easier to talk to. I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn’t understand me, either.

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

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There was something strange about Naoko’s becoming twenty. I felt as if the only thing that made sense, whether for Naoko or for me, was to keep going back and forth between eighteen and nineteen. After eighteen would come nineteen, and after nineteen, eighteen. Of course. But she turned twenty. And in the fall, I would do the same. Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

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More than once I tried stretching my hand out in that darkness. My fingers touched nothing. The faint glow remained, just beyond their grasp.

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To think that these idiots had been the ones screaming for the dismantling of the university! What a joke.

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I kept the room clean in his absence. I had picked up the habit of neatness over the past year and a half, and without him there to take care of the room, I had no choice but to do it.

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Life doesn’t require ideals. It requires standards of action.”

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“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”

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“Don’t tell me you’re trying to imitate that boy in Catcher in the Rye?”

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I really, truly believe deep down that I’m an ordinary person. Can you find something in me that’s not ordinary?”

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where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul’s dying embers.

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The years nineteen and twenty 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. It’s true. So think about it carefully. If you want to take care of Naoko, take care of yourself, too.”

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They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them.

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They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required for character building.

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it’s basically impossible for everybody’s justice to prevail or everybody’s happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

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He may be a nice guy, but deep down in his heart he’s incapable of loving anybody. There’s always some part of him somewhere that’s wide awake and detached. He just has that hunger that won’t go away. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about.”

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“Don’t feel sorry for yourself,” he said. “Only assholes do that.”

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I have to pay the price to go on living.

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