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thebookquotes · 5 months
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I close my eyes, but I can't fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind's wide awake.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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lux-noxaurea11 · 3 months
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- Haruki Murakami
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lets-get-lit · 3 months
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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figcatlists · 1 year
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Contemporary weird fiction reading list
A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.
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quotespile · 6 months
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We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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fairydrowning · 1 year
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"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets."
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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ethereal-muses · 1 year
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I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.
– Gustave Flaubert
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joytri · 28 days
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There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I'm after. I don't know what my strengths are or what I'm supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self- centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I'm not such a wonderful human being.
Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
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deadpoetsloverr · 1 year
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Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore.
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sillytriumphdragon · 2 months
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thebookquotes · 5 months
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I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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bookaddict24-7 · 4 months
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"A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully."
― Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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solitudeismyeuphoria · 10 months
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I’ve built a wall around me,
never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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gavas-world · 29 days
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
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quotespile · 2 months
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Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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