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Quotes from Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami

born 1949 Japan

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Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

"I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you."

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

"You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less."

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

"You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-your self. You must believe in your powers."

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Haruki Murakami (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.