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“We live in a pretty apathetic age, yet we’re surrounded by an enormous amount of information about other people. If you feel like it, you can easily gather that information about them. Having said that, we still hardly know anything about people.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“The world is full of ways and means to waste time.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

“Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark