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“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Variant: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: Kino

“Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Nakata's empty inside… Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 3

“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84