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Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki MurakamiOriginal title スプートニクの恋人 (Japanese, 1999)

Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in Japan, by Kodansha, in 1999. An English translation by Philip Gabriel was then published in 2001.

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”

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“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.”

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“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”

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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

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“After all this, I won't start to hate you.”

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“No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”

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“We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

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“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”

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“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”

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“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”

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“Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.”

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“Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?”

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“Imagineminus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.”

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“Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

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“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

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“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”

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“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

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“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

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“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”

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