“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but...”
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Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
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Haruki Murakami
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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but...”
“Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.”
“The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless”
“I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.”
“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
“Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and f...”
“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-texture...”
“Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para...”
“If people lived forever — if they never got any older — if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy — do you think they'd bother to think hard about things, th...”