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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle quotes

Haruki Murakami

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“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...” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drank, the very air I breathed, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor...” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the...” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is you want.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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