Haruki Murakami

Writer

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author known for his unique blend of magical realism and deep exploration of love and loneliness in works like 'Norwegian Wood.'

Born
January 12, 1949
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"So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness."

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"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."

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"What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past."

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"Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted."

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"Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection."

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"Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers."

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"What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities."

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"When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently."

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"Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life."

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"Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that."

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"My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves."

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"Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider."

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"If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."

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"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 like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can."

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"My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year."

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"But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me."

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"Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up."

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"Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

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