# Quote — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

> "Just remember, life is a box of chocolates"
>
> I shook my head a few times and looked at her. "Maybe I'm not so smart, but sometimes I don't know what on earth you're talking about."
>
> "You know, they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like,and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK.' Life is a box of cookies."
>
> "I suppose you could call it a philosophy."
>
> "It's true, though. I've learned it from experience."

- Author: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md)
- Book: [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(novel)#Chapter_Ten) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/just-remember-life

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> Maybe what Hatsumi had said to me had had some effect: I could make myself feel far happier just thinking about Naoko than sleeping with some stupid, anonymous girl.

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> "I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and then they bitch."

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> "I have to pay the price to go on living"

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