2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Elegir es eso. Y uno tiene que elegir el bando que le ofrece mayores posibilidades, aunque la diferencia sea sólo de un miserable uno por ciento. Es como el ajedrez. Te dan un jaque mate, pero tú escapas. Y, mientras te estás escabullendo, es posible que tu adversario meta la pata. Por más poderoso que sea un contrincante, no puede descartarse la posibilidad de que cometa algún error.

But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken away our food and water, and we're slowly dying, little by little...?

I felt defenseless when my hair got short all of a sudden. As if somebody had thrown me into a crowd all naked.

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just as we see with Eichmann.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

So you're thinking you'd rather not hand me a pistol?''They're dangerous. And illegal. And Chekov is qa writer you can trust.''But this is not a story. We're talking about the real word.'Tamaru narrowed his eyes and looked hard at Aomame. Then, slowly opening his mouth, he said 'Who knows?

Me explicó que no estamos aquí para corregir nuestras deformaciones, sino para acostumbrarnos a ellas. ... Al contrario, si intentamos corregirlas a la fuerza, únicamente lograremos que se resientan otros aspectos.

Señor Nakata, este mundo es extremadamente violento. Y nadie puede escapar a la violencia. No lo olvide. Por mucho cuidado con que se ande, nunca es suficiente. Y esto es válido tanto para los gatos como para los hombres.

La violencia no siempre adopta formas visibles y las heridas no siempre manan sangre.