Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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
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