Có vẻ như là lúc nào anh cũng cố gắng trở thành một người khác. Có vẻ như là anh đã luôn muốn đi về phía những người và những nơi mới mẻ và khác lạ, để tạo lập một cuộc đời mới, trở thành người có tính cách khác hẳn. Anh đã làm đi làm lại điều đó rất nhiều lần trong đời, cho đến tận lúc này. Theo nghĩa nào đó, trở thành người lớn là như thế, và theo một nghĩa khác, mỗi lần chỉ là một lần thay đổi mặt nạ. Dù là gì đi nữa, trong khi tìm cách trở thành một người khác, anh đã cố gắng tự giải thoát khỏi những gì cấu tạo nên con người anh cho đến khi đó. Anh thật sự nghiêm túc muốn trở thành một người khác, và anh từng tin rằng nếu nỗ lực đầy đủ anh sẽ làm được điều đó. Nhưng cuối cùng thì anh không đi đâu được hết cả. Anh vẫn là chính anh. Những khiếm khuyết, không thể khác được. Khung cảnh có thể thay đổi, âm thanh giọng nói dù có thay đổi ở xung quanh anh, anh vẫn cứ chỉ là một con người không hoàn hảo. Anh vẫn có những chỗ thiếu hụt như thế trong anh, những điều khơi dậy một sự thèm muốn mãnh liệt với cái khác. Một cơn khát và một cơn đói không thể thỏa mãn hành hạ anh, như là, cái này là chắc chắn, sẽ vẫn tiếp tục như vậy. Bởi vì, theo một nghĩa, những cái mặt nạ đó cùng là một phần của anh.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it. HARUKI MURAKAMI I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. HARUKI MURAKAMI When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphys... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. HARUKI MURAKAMI My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you HARUKI MURAKAMI You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, thr... HARUKI MURAKAMI I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different... HARUKI MURAKAMI For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individua... HARUKI MURAKAMI They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lone... HARUKI MURAKAMI Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom... HARUKI MURAKAMI No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars. HARUKI MURAKAMI I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. HARUKI MURAKAMI Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th... HARUKI MURAKAMI Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b... HARUKI MURAKAMI sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women. HARUKI MURAKAMI Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people. HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all. HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person. HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ... HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q... HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus... HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope... HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they... HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was... HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such... HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI