Quotes from book
The Strange Library

Name: The Strange Library
Author: Haruki Murakami

Haruki MurakamiOriginal title ふしぎな図書館 (Japanese, 2005)

The Strange Library is a novella for children by Japanese author Haruki Murakami . A version first appeared in 1983. There are several picture books based on this short story, the most recent versions of which were published in 2014.

“The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

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“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

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“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

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“At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

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“I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

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