Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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If you think God�s there, He is. If you don�t, He isn�t. And if that�s what God�s like, I wouldn�t worry about it.

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The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

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It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

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A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

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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.

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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.

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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

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Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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Haruki Murakami

 

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