Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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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.
Kafka on the Shore
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.
Kafka on the Shore
If you think God�s there, He is. If you don�t, He isn�t. And if that�s what God�s like, I wouldn�t worry about it.
Kafka on the Shore
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Kafka on the Shore
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Kafka on the Shore
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Kafka on the Shore
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
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
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
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