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Book: A Wild Sheep Chase
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  1. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility.
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats were left intact. Three albums rendered into a revised past. It was as if I'd been alone at birth, alone all my days, and would continue alone.
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.
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  6. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    What's more, you're loads better than you think you are.""So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled."That's because you're only half-living." she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word . It poses only a limited range of possibilities.
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  10. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, "Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equator?" I'd be in a fix. Hell, I don't even know why Wednesday follows Tuesday. I'd be an intergalactic joke
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  11. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories
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  12. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.
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