Haruki Murakami: Frasi in inglese

Haruki Murakami è scrittore, traduttore e saggista giapponese. Frasi in inglese.
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“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”

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Haruki Murakami libro La fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie

Origine: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

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Haruki Murakami libro L'uccello che girava le Viti del Mondo

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter One

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Contesto: And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

Chapter One

“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Dance Dance Dance

Origine: Dance Dance Dance

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

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Haruki Murakami libro La ragazza dello Sputnik

Origine: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

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Haruki Murakami libro L'uccello che girava le Viti del Mondo

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I said.
“A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. “What’s that all about? A spring bear.”
“You’re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, “Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?’ So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other’s arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?”
“Yeah. Really nice.”
“That’s how much I like you.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“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 someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

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Haruki Murakami libro 1Q84

Origine: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

“Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”

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Haruki Murakami libro L'arte di correre

Origine: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Origine: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Nel segno della pecora

Origine: A Wild Sheep Chase

“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Hear the Wind Sing

Origine: Hear the Wind Sing

“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”

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Haruki Murakami libro L'uccello che girava le Viti del Mondo

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“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.”

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Haruki Murakami libro 1Q84

Origine: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore