“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 25, Transit Completed at Movie Theater, On to The Dolphin Hotel
Context: "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment," she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my eyes, "most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Context: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The light of morning decomposes everything.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
Haruki Murakami
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IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variant: It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Source: 1Q84
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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