Origine: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Contesto: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

“I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.”

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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

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore

“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”

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

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can’t follow them all the way to the end.”

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

Origine: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”

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Haruki Murakami libro A sud del confine, a ovest del sole

Variante: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Origine: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.”

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Haruki Murakami libro 1Q84

Origine: 1Q84

“Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Norwegian Wood

Origine: Norwegian Wood

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

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Haruki Murakami libro Kafka sulla spiaggia

Origine: Kafka on the Shore