#murakami

Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have been soaked in ice water, brushed with horseradish and mustard, served on French butter rolls baked in the hot ovens of Kinokuniya. A sandwich made in heaven ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#murakami #food

Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Far away a crow caws. The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details there are dreams. And everyone´s living in them. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#murakami #dreams

Ne radi se o tome da ne vjerujem u savremenu književnost, ali ne želim da traćim dragocjeno vrijeme na čitanje knjiga čiju vrijednost nije potvrdilo vrijeme. Život je kratak. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#japan #norveška-šuma #norwegian-wood #japan

And when 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 a storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is about ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational #kafka-on-the-shore #inspirational

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#murakami #life

If you can love someone with your whole hear, even on person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#murakami #life

El amor que se profesaban era tan verdadero que no había ninguna necesidad de ponerlo a prueba. El destino los había unido con un lazo tan fuerte que solo es posible encontrar uno igual entre un millón ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #murakami #love

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#money #murakami #owe #money

La muerte no existe en contraposición a la vida sino como parte de ella. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#tokio-blues #vida