Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer



Your Heart is Like a Great River (1)

The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and it doesn't have to be very big - is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what do you get? Silence. You look for silence, but...

The Darkness In Our Hearts (2)

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two ...

Smart Children Education (3)

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and ...

Touchstone Memories (4)

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We�re so caught up in our everyday lives that ev...

Lost Opportunities (5)

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room whe...

The Storm of Destiny (6)

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, lik...


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Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays