If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
– Haruki Murakami
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- Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. – Abhijit Naskar
- The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. – Haruki Murakami
- The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-”your self. – Haruki Murakami
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- Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound. – Haruki Murakami
- If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. – Haruki Murakami
- The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground – Haruki Murakami
- Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist. – Madeleine LEngle
- The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
- Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving. – J Budziszewski
- Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. – Haruki Murakami
- A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea – Haruki Murakami
- a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime – Haruki Murakami
- For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient. – Haruki Murakami
- With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul. – Haruki Murakami
- Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself. – Haruki Murakami
- Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. – Haruki Murakami
- The real world-”where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere. – Haruki Murakami
- When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that’s the real world. – Haruki Murakami
- Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? – Haruki Murakami
- It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. – Haruki Murakami
- Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I’ll do some thinking. Ob-”la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on. – Haruki Murakami
- Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. – Haruki Murakami
- She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start – Haruki Murakami
- History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself. – Haruki Murakami
- I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept. – Haruki Murakami
- You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them – Haruki Murakami
- Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry-”at someone else or at herself-”which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears. – Haruki Murakami
- All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. – Haruki Murakami
- She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. – Haruki Murakami
- My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning. – Haruki Murakami
- To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence. – Haruki Murakami
- Like boarding a train running parallel. That’s what disappearing is. – Haruki Murakami
- You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. – Haruki Murakami
- Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. – Haruki Murakami
- Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. – Haruki Murakami
- The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. – Haruki Murakami
- Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems. – Haruki Murakami
- Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions. – Haruki Murakami
- No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others. – Haruki Murakami