“Uživat ću i vrednovati ono što se ne može izraziti brojkama, tražit ću osjećaj ponosa koji dolazi s drugačijeg mjesta.”
Author detail
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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“Uživat ću i vrednovati ono što se ne može izraziti brojkama, tražit ću osjećaj ponosa koji dolazi s drugačijeg mjesta.”
“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable,...”
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us - that's snatched right out of our hands - even if we are left...”
“We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.”
“being able to hold a real live woman in my arms regularly, brought me a certain level of calm.”
“- E' come tra le persone? Scossi la testa. - No, tra le persone è diverso. Il sentimento che proviamo per qualcuno, si trasforma sempre un po' in rapporto all'altro. Si modifica, vacilla, cr...”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
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“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
“Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.”
“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stret...”
“I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.”
“The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless”
“Bazı şeylerin değerinin anlaşılması için zaman gerekir.”
“Time was dead in the air.”
“Time trailed off into death and over this dead time, a silent snow was falling.”
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“Did time really flow in such a steady and linear way? Couldn't this be a mistaken way of thinking, an error of major proportions?”
“As the days piled up, I wore out, too, and was remade. Nothing stayed still. And time was lost. Behind me, time became dead grains of sand, which one after another gave way and vanished. I j...”
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“Every day time moves forward one day’s worth. And what has gone forward can’t go back to where it came from.”
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“Yet what was time, when you got right down to it? We measured its passage with the hands of a clock for convenience’s sake. But was that appropriate? Did time really flow in such a steady an...”