Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
“For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.”
“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”
“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”
“Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”
“The more honest I try to be, the more the right words recede into the distance.”
“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.”
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Book Keywords:
wind, insightful, kirie, writing, people, despair, ocean, art
