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“This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you”

Haruki Murakami

“I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning

“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.”

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

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?”

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

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Nine: Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark