Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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On War:

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Kafka on the Shore

On Self-knowledge:

I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

Sputnik Sweetheart

On Happiness:

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Kafka on the Shore

On Sorrow:

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Norwegian Wood

On Dream:

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Sputnik Sweetheart

On Love:

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Kafka on the Shore

On Solitude:

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Sputnik Sweetheart

On Pain:

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

On Memory:

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Kafka on the Shore

On Reading:

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Norwegian Wood
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