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Kafka On The Shore

Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafk

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“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, life's journey, Time, Living, life's memories

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Memories, memories of love, Experience, sweet

“The world is a metaphor.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Metaphor, Metaphors for Life, Life, Life Is Worth Living

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us . . . Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that's where I imagine it—there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like th…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Living, Life Is Full Of Possibilities

“You can run but you can't hide.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Hiding, Running Away, Life

“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes,what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, love is complex, love is hard to understand, Understanding Love, Relationships

“But things in the past are like a plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Memories, Past, Past Memories

“It all really happened, so you can't undo it.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, life's flow, things happen, Past, what's done is done

“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you forever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: It's not too late to recover. You're young, you're tough. You're adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, life up your head, and move on.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, life advice, Moving Forward, Getting Back Up, getting back on your feet

“In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, time passes, flow of time, you can't go back, time continues

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my own heart.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, self, self-journey, Self & Identity, internal world

“'Writing things was important, wasn't it?' 'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even thought the finished product is completely meaningless.'”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, writing process, process of writing, writing is important

“Everything passed away in an instant, with nothing left behind except the scars of things I injured and despised.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Scars, Sufferings, struggles, Pain, painful memories

“It wasn't always easy, but suffering is something I've had to accept.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Suffering, struggles, life sufferings, Life Struggles

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Past, Past Memories, Moments, Life

“Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Wars, waging wars, Battles, futile fights, Violence

“Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Wars, Battles, waging wars, world wars, emotional statement

“Sure, that can happen. We have an experience—like a chemical reaction—that transforms something inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we've lived by have shot up another notch and the world's opened up in unexpected ways.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, your world, standards in life, standards in living, Transformations

“Lift the burden from your shoulders and live—not caught up in someone else's schemes, but as you. That's what you want.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, live your own life, live your own way, Living, live fully

“Going back is more difficult than going forward, I discover.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Going Forward, Looking Back, Moving Forward, Memories