“Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost." "That's not true. You are not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just… — 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
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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image