Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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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
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Kafka on the Shore
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
1Q84
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
The Elephant Vanishes
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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