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1Q84 (Vintage International)

“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us

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Haruki Murakami (7)

“I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someon…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Love, Love, Learning how to love, Solitude, Alone

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Meaning, explanation, Losing meaning

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Hoping, Coincidences

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is’”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Forever With You