No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Money was not a living thing. It wouldn’t run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The resounding stillness gives the structures an impression of abandonment. Yet each time I turn down these streets, I can sense strangers… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. (…) How… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As far as I could recall, with long hair, she had been just another cute coed. From the girl who sat before… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The law presides over things of this world, finally. The world where shadow is shadow and light is light, yin is yin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is cognition that is the fantasy… Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We all die and disappear, but that’s because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been there, and no struggle… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. [ ] Not just to explain to others but to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“1971 was the year of spaghetti. In 1971 I cooked spaghetti to live, and lived to cook spaghetti. Steam rising from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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