“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why do you guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything is there but there are no parts. Since there are no parts there's no need to replace one thing with another.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Envoltos por uma agradável sensação de intimidade, conversámos acerca de tudo e mais alguma coisa. Quem me dera, também a mim, que… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Knjiga je puna života i slobode, koju zdrav razum ne može sputati. Kao džin koji mora izaći van iz boce. To mi… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We couldn't bear to be apart. So if Kizuki had lived, I'm sure we would have been together, loving each other, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Go figure. For me, I might have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr.… — 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
