Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. That’s what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — 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
“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all… — 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
