2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Ne radi se o tome da ne vjerujem u savremenu književnost, ali ne želim da traćim dragocjeno vrijeme na čitanje knjiga čiju vrijednost nije potvrdilo vrijeme. Život je kratak.

As he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said it aloud, some keen-eared demon somewhere might overhear him. And so he kept his wish for continued tranquility to himself. But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.

The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new.

I had heard the nails being driven into the nails of her coffin, but I couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.

Các hình ảnh, khung cảnh, ngôn từ...tất cả chúng đều vô cùng sống động trong tâm trí em. Viết đi! Chúng hét lên với em thế. Một câu chuyện mới mẻ tuyệt hay đang hình thành, em có thể cảm thấy nó. Nó mang em đến một nơi nào đó hoàn toàn mới. Nhưng rắc rối là một khi em ngồi vào bàn và trút tất cả ra giấy thì em lại thấy không diễn tả được cái chính yếu. Chúng không kết tinh lại được, chỉ là đá cuội chứ không phải pha lê. Và em chẳng đi đến đâu cả.

They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams.

Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way - cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

Dios sólo existe en la mente de los hombres.