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
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — 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
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed… — 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
