“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that’s the way it goes, what’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you think you weren’t loved enough?” She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not that everything about it was wonderful: his chest ached, he found it hard to breathe, and a far, a dark oscillation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we cant escape the fact that I am not enough for you. I knew this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
