Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

The Elephant Vanishes
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it�d lose even its imperfection.

Sputnik Sweetheart
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

1Q84
Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth.

Norwegian Wood
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

After the Quake
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

Hear the Wind Sing
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

After the Quake
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