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"…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling."
- Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart(Source: dailystendhalnitesaudade, via leopoldgursky)
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"Until it was nothing more than a gray paper moon, hanging in the sky."
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84(Source: the-final-sentence)
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My breakdown of Murakami themes.
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"As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone."
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84(Source: kolatea, via footnoteswithinfootnotes)
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"The strength I’m looking for isn’t the kind where you win or lose. I’m not after a wall that will repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things — unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings."
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore(Source: durianquotes, via weareinfinite)
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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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It Was Not Simply an Absence of Sound
“Tengo listened to the silence, which seemed to offer several different meanings. It was not simply an absence of sound. The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.”
— Haruki Murakami, “1Q84”
Thank you, turtlesuponturtles & silencesounds.
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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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High Resolution“What I talk About When I Talk About Running” by Haruki Murakami. An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami. While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami’s decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories and insights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in athletic pursuit.
(via bookmania)
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High Resolution(via lattesque)
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Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
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"I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?"
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore(Source: kleir)
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