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Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medi — Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami
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 co — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No ho — Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away fro — Haruki Murakami
I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, w — Haruki Murakami
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't li — Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking fre — Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard. — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gra — Haruki Murakami
Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life g — Haruki Murakami
Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the — Haruki Murakami
Writing a novel is like having a dream. — Haruki Murakami
Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime."Fuka-Eri thought — Haruki Murakami
When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my — Haruki Murakami, Yesterday
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter — Haruki Murakami, Yesterday