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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b22d9a | But that was the last time. That was...how should I say it? ... the one moment in my life when I was able to draw closest to Eri ... the one moment when she and I joined heart to heart as one: there was nothing separating us. After that, it seems, we grew further and further apart. We separated, and before long we were living in different worlds. That sense of union I felt in the darkness of the lift, that strong bond between our hearts, ne.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 12a4e1b | Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 38bcad4 | No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a179f47 | she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cfbc0ab | Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| df18ca6 | When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 25f18a2 | anchyzy khh bh ndyshh mkhn rshd mydhd, drd st. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 71f9317 | There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again. | lonely | Haruki Murakami | |
| f3c188d | To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things. If you could manage to do both equally well, living would be a lot simpler (from Honey Pie) | Haruki Murakami | ||
| fa85478 | Not being bored means not having to think about a lot of stupid stuff. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ef7ca9c | Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most SUBLIME thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth only served one purpose: to make art possible. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f80a96a | Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5ab2da4 | Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 772bc77 | I've finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you've met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you're suffocating. The same emotion hasn't changed at all in a thousand years. | love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 8afa5d3 | It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima" | responsibility imagination eichmann kafka-on-the-shore murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 3d4e603 | The sky was painted over, a perfect uniform gray. On days like this the clouds probably absorbed the sounds from the surface of the earth. And not just sounds. All kinds of things. Perceptions, for example. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3fc589d | We're human, after all, and everybody's got something a little off somewhere. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 01236c2 | Are you asking because you really want an answer? | questions | Haruki Murakami | |
| ce4aa4f | Enough of your prattle," the old man said. "I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common trash." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 79d0ddc | Noboru Wataya is a person who belongs to a world that is the exact opposite of yours... In a world where you are losing everything, Mr.Okada, Noboru Wataya is gaining everything. In a world where you are rejected, he is accepted. And the opposite is just as true. Which is why he hates you so intensely. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c56b4ae | The well bottom is like the bottom of the sea. Things down here stay very still, keeping their original forms, as if under tremendous pressure, unchanged from day to day. A round slice of light floats high above me: the evening sky. Looking up at it, I think about the October evening world, where "people" must be going about their lives. Beneath that pale autumn light, they must be walking down streets, going to the store for things, pre.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 73c2d99 | I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10 | Haruki Murakami | ||
| df344be | Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8bf2344 | The silence lent a faint weight to the air. As though I were sitting alone, at the bottom of the sea. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 95ee373 | No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 470e526 | Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man. | life-lessons | Haruki Murakami | |
| cfda62c | kn qry' 'kthr nhman mny bkthyr, lknh tkhdh lh q`d@ fy 'n l yms ktb l'y mw'lf lm ymt qbl thlthyn sn@. ql: "dhlk hw lnw` lwHyd mn lktb ldhy 'stTy` 'n 'thq bh". w'Df: "hdh l y`ny 'nny l 'w'mn bl'db lHdyth, lknny l 'ryd tDyy` lwqt lthmyn bqr@ ktb lm yu`amWidh lzmn. lHy@ qSyr@ jd"." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8a2cea9 | In the silence of the woods it felt like I could hear the passage of time, of life passing by. One person leaves, another appears. A thought flits away and another takes its place. One image bids farewell and another one appears on the scene. As the days piled up, I wore out, too, and was remade. Nothing stayed still. And time was lost. Behind me, time became dead grains of sand, which one after another gave way and vanished. I just sat the.. | time transient | Haruki Murakami | |
| 072018e | I was desperately clinging to a scrap of wood that had been swept away. In pitch-black darkness, not a single star, or the moon, visible in the sky. As long as I clung to that piece of wood I wouldn't drown, but I had no clue where I was, where I was heading. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a1a0296 | he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short." | reading | Haruki Murakami | |
| 0c371ed | Who was I kidding? I'm a farmer, and farmers are natural segregationists. We separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm not Rudolf Hess, P. W. Botha, Capitol Records, or present-day U.S. of A. Those motherfuckers segregate because they want to hold on to power. I'm a farmer: we segregate in an effort to give every tree, every plant, every poor Mexican, every poor nigger, a chance for equal access to sunlight and water; we make sure every living.. | Paul Beatty | ||
| aedfb27 | I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief. | blacks jail justice-system race-relations incarceration innocence justice prison guilt | Paul Beatty | |
| 52076e8 | Like the good Reverend King I too 'have a dream' but when I wake up I forget it and remember I'm running late for work. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 633c337 | The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| a408ada | It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 1af642e | It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6095508 | All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. --T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land | Larry McMurtry | ||
| fb41f3d | No, Maximilien, I am not offended," answered she, "but do you not see what a poor, helpless being I am, almost a stranger and an outcast in my father's house, where even he is seldom seen; whose will has been thwarted, and spirits broken, from the age of ten years, beneath the iron rod so sternly held over me; oppressed, mortified, and persecuted, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, no person has cared for, even observed my sufferin.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| dd5b9cd | Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0d77813 | But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b365162 | There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 65e6485 | Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| e1174d8 | Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| dfe7f3a | Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever. | Alexandre Dumas-fils |