Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

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As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

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When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

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Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

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Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

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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.

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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

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Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

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Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

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Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

 

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