Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
A Wild Sheep Chase
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
After Dark
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.
Norwegian Wood
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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