“A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far...it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life. By living our lives, we nurture death — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained.” — 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
“Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the… — 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
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates, realized that I was going through life asleep.” — 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
“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
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When pain comes to me, I leave my physical self. It's just like quietly slipping into the next room when someone you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.” — 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
“Those are life-and-death-type experiences he goes through in the mines. Eventually he gets out and goes back to his old life. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you… — 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'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this… — 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
