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“Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)

“I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: Samsa in Love

“There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“The world is an inherently unfair place.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”

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

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“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 book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“Life: I'll never understand it.”

Haruki Murakami

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Variant: Life: I’ll never understand it.

“The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?… the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood