23 Quotes by Haruki Murakami about truth

  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

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    Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

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    The truth is a symbol, and symbols are the truth. It is best to graspsymbols the way they are. There’s no logic or facts, no pig’s bellybutton or ant’s balls. When people try to use a method other than thetruth to follow along the path of understanding, it is like trying to use asieve to hold water.

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    People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

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