I don't know what it means to live.
(Kafka on the Shore )
More Quotes from Haruki Murakami:
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.Haruki Murakami
To know one's own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one's own face with one's own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one's reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
Haruki Murakami
Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.
Haruki Murakami
It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.
Haruki Murakami
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
Haruki Murakami
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
Haruki Murakami
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