Haruki Murakami
"There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."
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"There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."
Haruki Murakami
"When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about."
Haruki Murakami
"Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me."
Haruki Murakami
"You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally."
Haruki Murakami
"It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world’s darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density."
Haruki Murakami
"...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected."
Haruki Murakami
"I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key."
Haruki Murakami
"suffering is a misunderstood pain"
Haruki Murakami
"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them"
Haruki Murakami
"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
Haruki Murakami
"History cannot be erased or altered. Because that would mean killing yourself."
Haruki Murakami
"In other words, Shozaburo Takitani was now alone in the world. This was no great shock to him, however, nor did it make him feel particularly sad or miserable. He did, of course, experience some sense of absence, but he felt that, eventually, life had to turn out more or less like this. Everyone ended up alone sooner or later."
Haruki Murakami
"Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night."
Haruki Murakami
"I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials."
Haruki Murakami
"People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off."
Haruki Murakami
"There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them. That's true for you - and for me, too."
Haruki Murakami
"it's a fine moon', she repeated"
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 about that for a moment. Tengo went on, “Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
Haruki Murakami
"You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them. Sara looked directly into his eyes I nothing else, you need to remember that. you can't erase history, or change it. it would be like destroying yourself."
Haruki Murakami
"I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book."
Haruki Murakami
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