Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
Dance Dance Dance
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. "Mythomania" is the word for it.
Norwegian Wood
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
Kafka on the Shore
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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
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
Essays