Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don’t give a damn if nobody understands us… That’s what makes us different from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part… — 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
“Si he dejado una herida en tu interior, esta herida no es solo tuya, tambien es mia. Ai que no me odies… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You're very clear about what you like and what you don't like," she said. "Maybe so," I said. "Maybe that's why people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Porque será que estamos condenados a ser assim tão solitários? Qual a razão de tudo isto? Há tanta gente, tanta gente neste… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — 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
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