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“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I don't give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84

“Life is like a box of cookies.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“You're, you see, and nobody else. Youyou, right?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“At least he never walked.”

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

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 26, The Sheep Professor

“And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”

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

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

“Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.”

Haruki Murakami

A Long Way from The Stuffed Cabbage (short story)
Source: 终於悲哀的外國語
Context: Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. In my case, the stronger is the intention to "write about a particular subject in a particular way," the harder it becomes to start writing and to express myself. This stress somewhat resembles the irritation one feels when he cannot describe to another person what he experienced so vividly and realistically in his dreams. All words I use to narrate my feeling of the moment fail incessantly to describe what I wish to, and then they begin to betray me.

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“I think most people live in fiction… That's how you keep your fragile body intact.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood