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And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada
— Haruki Murakami
What's important is the will to win. In the real world we can't always win. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
— Haruki Murakami
[ ... ] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
— Haruki Murakami
So you finally made Naoko yours,' I heard myself telling him. 'Oh well, she was yours to begin with.
— Haruki Murakami
If anything, my physical death would be, for me, a form of salvation, It would liberate me for ever from this hopeless prison, this pain of being me.
— Haruki Murakami
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
— Haruki Murakami
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm not very good at giving anyone a clear no.
— Haruki Murakami
We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.
— Haruki Murakami
IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.
— Haruki Murakami
I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.
— Haruki Murakami
He lived in his own special hell
— Haruki Murakami
Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
— Haruki Murakami
The way everyone pretends to be on the same wavelength without questioning or talking about things - it doesn't get anyone anywhere.
— Haruki Murakami
I've chosen to live - and to live the best I know how.
— Haruki Murakami
Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either
— Haruki Murakami
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.
— Haruki Murakami
It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your own.
— Haruki Murakami
The four colorful people - and colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.
— Haruki Murakami
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
— Haruki Murakami
No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.
— Haruki Murakami
Like dark, soft water, sadness took over Aomame's heart, soundlessly, and with no warning.
— Haruki Murakami
You can't keep counting forever
— Haruki Murakami
When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.
— Haruki Murakami
Beast did have one major purpose. That much I do know. A monumental plan to transform humanity and the human world.
— Haruki Murakami
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
— Haruki Murakami
To relinquish yourself carries no shame.
— Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, when the world gets too hard to live in, I come here for vodka and tonic.
— Haruki Murakami
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
— Haruki Murakami
look at the painting and listen to the wind
— Haruki Murakami
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
— Haruki Murakami
They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around - the thing gets more and more like its name.
— Haruki Murakami
I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.
— Haruki Murakami
The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd.
— Haruki Murakami
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
— Haruki Murakami
She hadn't been hurt in any real way, had she? No one had treated her badly. I must just be overly sensitive to things, she convinced herself.
— Haruki Murakami
The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.
— Haruki Murakami
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
— Haruki Murakami
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
— Haruki Murakami
Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it?
— Haruki Murakami
Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.
— Haruki Murakami
To a greater or lesser extent, everybody's always being ordered and threatened and pushed around. There may not be anything better we could hope for.
— Haruki Murakami
Compared to the complexity of the universe, this world of ours is like the brain of a worm.
— Haruki Murakami
He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn't now. The only place for him was where he was now.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm dying of thirst but lack the strength to even drink water anymore.
— Haruki Murakami
How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498
— Haruki Murakami
No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.
— Haruki Murakami
It was simply one of those things that remain as an "exceptional but interesting" episode in life.
— Haruki Murakami
About how it feels to be alone and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.
— Haruki Murakami
You like sequences," Fuka-Eri asked, without a question mark. "To me, they're like Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. I never get tired of them.
— Haruki Murakami
Money isn't like mushrooms in a forest - it doesn't just pop up on its own, you know.
— Haruki Murakami
When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out - that's the real world,
— Haruki Murakami
All I did was go to the library to borrow some books
— Haruki Murakami
Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.
— Haruki Murakami
I never had any ambitions to be a novelist.
— Haruki Murakami
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
— Haruki Murakami
You're really cute, Midori," I corrected myself.
"What do you mean really cute?"
"So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up. — Haruki Murakami
"What do you mean really cute?"
"So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up. — Haruki Murakami
Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.)
— Haruki Murakami
all-too-human powers
— No One
Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
— Haruki Murakami
This place is too calm, too natural
too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet. — Haruki Murakami
too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet. — Haruki Murakami
It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.
— Haruki Murakami
I felt as if I were living alone in an extremely well-cared-for ruin.
— Haruki Murakami
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
— Haruki Murakami
Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.
— Haruki Murakami
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very
useful in the real world, that's for sure. — Haruki Murakami
useful in the real world, that's for sure. — Haruki Murakami
I move, therefore I am.
— Haruki Murakami
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
— Haruki Murakami
She was the type to keep riding the train the wrong way around.
— Haruki Murakami
My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive
— Haruki Murakami
Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
— Haruki Murakami
The right words always seemed to come too late.
— Haruki Murakami
I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
— Haruki Murakami
If you need me, use me. Don't you see?
— Haruki Murakami
No Good News in This Chapter
— Haruki Murakami
Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand-new.
— Haruki Murakami
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
— Haruki Murakami
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
— Haruki Murakami
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
— Haruki Murakami
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
— Haruki Murakami
One person too much and freedom goes out the window.
— Haruki Murakami
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!
— Haruki Murakami
Count your blessings
— Haruki Murakami
But I think where a person is born and dies is very important. You can't choose where you're born, but where you die you can
to some degree. — Haruki Murakami
to some degree. — Haruki Murakami
Metaphysics is never more than semantic pleasantries anyway.
— Haruki Murakami
If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.
— Haruki Murakami
And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.
— Haruki Murakami
For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities.
— Haruki Murakami
She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.
— Haruki Murakami
I don't think I'd want Mickey Mouse pimping for me anyway.
— Haruki Murakami