Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
Dance Dance Dance
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.
Norwegian Wood
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
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