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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “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.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #14
    Haruki Murakami
    “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “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 maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.”
    Haruki Murakami, After Dark

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #19
    Haruki Murakami
    “It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?”
    Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

  • #24
    Haruki Murakami
    “Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #26
    Haruki Murakami
    “You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #27
    Haruki Murakami
    “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.”
    Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • #28
    Yukio Mishima
    “Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
    Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

  • #29
    Yukio Mishima
    “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
    Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

  • #30
    Yukio Mishima
    “Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
    Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors



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