Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Quotes
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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Kafka on the Shore
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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
Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
In everybody�s life there�s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can�t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That�s how we survive.
Kafka on the Shore
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
Norwegian Wood
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
After Dark
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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