Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
To Be by Myself (22)
I�m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I�m the type of person who doesn�t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, ...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What People Need (23)
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting st...
1Q84
1Q84
Running Helps (24)
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live ...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Smart Children Education (25)
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and ...
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore
Unable to Love (26)
I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone ...
1Q84
1Q84
Touchstone Memories (27)
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We�re so caught up in our everyday lives that ev...
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore
Love Magnetism (28)
I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I l...
South of the Border, West of the Sun
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Memories Are the Fuel to Stay Alive (29)
"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the mainte...
After Dark
After Dark
Losing a Loved One (30)
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something fro...
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood
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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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Essays