Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
Norwegian Wood
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
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
Norwegian Wood
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
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
1Q84
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
1Q84
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Hear the Wind Sing
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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